How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our film is mainly aimed at young people, and the representation of them can be very contrasting at times; they can be represented as a problem within society however they can be represented as the hope for society in terms of education. Below are a list of words often stereotypically associated with young people and teenagers in particular.
In our movie, we have used some of those stereotypes such as violence and villain. We have used close ups to portray the killer's feelings through his facial expression. We have used a dark hoodie to dress the killer- an item of clothing that is associated with young people- and leather gloves. The audience would instantly recognize this character and stereotypically view him as threatening and sinister. Finally, the actor who played the role of the murder victim is also a teenager, which is a contrasting representation of teenagers because he is seen as vulnerable but the other teen is a killer. Finally, we have stuck to the stereotypical portrayal of teens by having a dark skinned killer and a light skinned victim, although we have challenged one of the conventions of typical films and have a male victim instead of female.
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