Evaluation: Question 2

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The representation of youth and gender are significantly conveyed within our film.  This is shown through specific aspects such as the Mise En Scene, the characters clothing.  The clothing is from a young generation, fashionable and represents the characters. Specific props were used such as an ipod and a cigarette. These typically are associated with youth. Killers within Slasher films often kill there victims for an act of revenge, Youth typically have a bad reputation within the media. So young people are often killed within slasher film as an act of punishment. This is what is presented through our specific film.
Our two main characters within the two minute opening are a female and a male. As a group we thought this would be significant within the opening as it is evident that they are in some kind of a relationship. The inappropriate gestures give the killer a motive.

Within this particular sub-genre, young victims are often presented due to their representation within the media. This automatically gives motive and reason to why they will be killed, such as being sexually active, smoking or taking part in drug activity. Young victims are often within this type of genre, because there violent death is seen as an act of punishment from the killers point of view.
In reference to the representation of gender, there is the stereotype of the 'passive female' in which conveys the stereotypical views of society as the Killer is male and this is directly conveyed through in our film through heavy breathing. The automatically enhances that the victim is a lot weaker than the killer and this is due to her gender.

We can see this through the point of view shot in which we use within our film.

In most of the films that we have researched, a male character is often presented with a female character who we assume to be the victims.

Characters within 'The Chain Saw Massacre' we can see both
Male and Female character who seem to be of youth
automatically we assume that these group of people are the victims

Characters within 'The Strangers' the shot shows the setting to be dark
the female seems to be in distress, everything in the shots conveys them
to being the victims within the film.

Within our specific product we present the female character wearing black leggings, with a rolling stones t-shirt. This is simple clothing and we purposefully conveyed this as a group. We did not want to convey a specific stereotype as it involves the killer within Slasher films to pick their victims.
The male character was presented with jeans and a T-shirt again the character is not defined by the characters clothes. However the use of the prop (cigarette) has negative connotations amongst the media as it suggests the ‘bad boy’ image. Youth are associated with this type of image, and this was specifically found within the film ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

This type of presentation of youth is typically conveyed through Slasher films, as it gives the killer the initiative to kill his victims, as the killer seems to seek revenger as an act if punishment for his victims.

Screen shots from our media product representing gender and youth:

Here we can see the characters distinctly public affection is being
presented, typically associated with youth, connotations of kissing also.

One of the characters typically using hair straighteners, typical everyday
prop in which females commonly use in everyday life, could be also representing youth and gender 

The typical clothing of the female character representing the youth and gender.