How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film we have suppressed some of the typical teenage stereotypes; the girls seem more grown up, however we do use some to show the age of the characters. For example the way we dress the use of technology and also the reference to Jess’ mother. This would appeal to a teenage age group because of the age of the characters, girls could sympathize with the characters better, however the horror genre would still appeal to men.

We had both girls wearing jeans to symbolize youth however had coats to show the climate and differences between them. Chloe (India, picture above) is wearing a black and white coat suggesting her character has different personalities however Jess (Me, picture below) is wearing a navy coat to show how she displays her personality. The use of colours also contrast with the back ground to make the characters stand out. We want our audience to be able to relate to our characters as they seem very normal.

However we do not introduce characters of any other ages so do not represent any other social group.
This shot shows Jess wearing a dark blue coat, it contrasts with the green and brown background, this could appeal to audience members as it shows the quality of the picture and makes audiences wonder why she is there, making them want to watch the film. We were originally going to keep naturalistic colours in this scene however we ended up making the saturation higher to try and achieve a Pre-Raphaelite type shot, enhancing the characters confused nature.
I think the genre of horror will attract people to cinemas because of the atmosphere, I think our film would bode well in this as teenagers go to the cinema quite a lot and this is our target audience.