JR 6245: Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film opening shows the main protagonist as a young adult, not a child and not an old person. This corresponds with the generic audience of the film as the Horror genre captivates a 16-25 year old audience. Typically an audience will watch a film if they can relate to the main characters, in this case a young adult of 16-25.

The age of the protagonist character is reinforced in the use of props as he is texting on a mobile phone which is a modern aspect and relates to the audience with the use of technology which is common amongst young people.

Use of technology

The antagonist character represents the social group of young males which is beneficial to corresponding with the target audience that are predominantly young people and male. Also typically in films of this genre the main antagonists and main protagonists are male due to the stereotype in society that women are harmless. Often female characters in Horror films are killed or do not survive attacks from the antagonists because of the idea that they are vulnerable and can be overpowered. This is why it suits our film opening to have a male antagonist and protagonist.



Antagonist Mike Myers in the film Halloween (2007)



Antagonist in our film opening, similar generics to Halloween (2007)

The characters that we show as victims of the antagonist in our film opening are introduced through flashback scenes, these flashbacks have a hazed effect to clarify the difference in time periods from the main storyline. These characters are similar to our protagonist and show a positive ideology of male characters as typically females would be shown to be scared and running away but in this case young males are used to show fear and danger.



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