Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Evaluation- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In this production, the genre is horror and the main story line in the film is the fact that a boy has cheated on his girlfriend. So what was decided to do is a typical cheating based horror. As most young people are most commonly known to cheat. This film is casted by 17-19 year olds. Therefore, this must attract teenagers of this age to watch the opening of this film we have produced.
This film is to help show that being a teenager is just like the adult life, even though they are still young, they have to deal with adult situations at a young age, is this showing that teenagers are growing up too fast and are having to make decisions early on in life. However, there is no importance shown to this as they are still young.
Melissa who plays the killer, doesn't like cheats, therefore she fits into the part of the killer. Also, Laura has experienced being cheated on, therefore it makes it easier for her to understand her part in the film, a lot easier to play. From the actors/actresses who played the parts, having them having the same views and similarities to this storyline,it helps play the parts correct.
Also in this production, it is a girl that gets cheated on by her boyfriend and her heart is broken, this is a typical thing to real life that the boy has cheated on his girlfriend. It is more likely a boy to cheat than a girl. Therefore we have made a girl be cheated on in our film production.

In horror/slasher movies you intend to start the film with a typical girl at the start, for example 'Scream' a 'Real' media institution has at the beginning of the film a girl is home alone, also the girl is a teenager. 'Scream' represents teenage girls to be useless and clumsy, whereas in our production, we wanted the girl not to be this and we wanted her to be the opposite from this where she can be able to defend herself. 'Scream' itself was released in 1996 whereas to our film production it is released in 2011, from then to now we wanted to show that women can go from being clumsy and defenceless in a horror film, to being able to defend themselves and be a lot stronger. 

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