2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media production consists of three characters who are all searching for a missing dog. These characters consist of two boys and one girl. Instantly the audience would expect the girl to be the victim as she is the only girl making her vulnerable which is conventional to the thriller genre as the female characters are usually seen to be vulnerable, weak and inferior. However this is where I challenged the conventions and made the girl character in the production a secret antagonist. This is unconventional as girls are seen to be powerless against men in this genre who are seen as powerful, strong and dominant and are mostly always the protagonist characters. This is where I also challenged the conventions by making one of the male characters the victim and having him murdered by the female antagonist. This isn't gender stereotypical as females are always seen to be less inferior to men in everyday life as they are always seen as the stronger character physically and mentally. Although I challenged the conventions due to the power of the characters I did however still make them relatable to the target audience I had aimed the piece at. The characters in my piece are all teenagers of 16 and 17 which is also the age of my target audience of teenagers to young adults with an age of roughly 15-25. I made our characters to be of similar ages to the target audience so that the audience can relate to them and ultimately imagine themselves in the situations which will scare them more when bad things happen to the characters of their similar ages.
The characters in my piece all wore costumes that the target audience could relate to by wearing casual everyday clothes such as jeans, converse, a top and a coat. This is what the audience would expect the characters to be wearing whilst on a winters day in the forest as this is what they would consider wearing themselves. The female character also wore minimal makeup and had a casual down hair-do. The only other makeup used was fake blood around her mouth on the reveal of her as the antagonist to show that she had clearly killed someone and their blood remained on her face. This is where the audience could be surprised and shocked as they wouldn't expect a female of this age to be able to do such a thing and have overcome a male character.
Your analysis of question 2, demonstrates a basic understanding of how your media product present social groups towards an audience. You have made a start in considering the roles and representations of your characters, through the costumes that you included and the narrative that is presented towards an audience.
ReplyDeleteTo improve this, you need to relate your points to images and to discuss the ways in which the audience can build a relationship with your characters and the emotions that are presented.