How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Foundation Production Question 2

Our media product represents the social group of teenagers, it doesn't really differentiate to a specific sex as its aimed at both. The teenage girl in our film opening shows a typical stereotype as she is on her phone texting while watching television which is what most horror movies do as they create a contrast by having something very normal compared to something very strange and out the ordinary. The fact our teenage girl is babysitting (we know this from the text she receives from her mum) shows a stereotype as teenage girls are always babysitting for their neighbours ect... Other films that use this stereotype of teenage girl baby sitting is 'Paranormal activity 3'    

Shot from paranormal activity 3

Shot from our sequence

Here is a picture from Paranormal Activity 3 where the teenage girl is baby sitting, as you can see in the center of the image that there is a ghost like figure behind her and it is clear that she is unaware that this is behind her. This links with our film opening as in the last scene the teenage girl is running herself a bath and the man is standing behind her. The shot we got allows the audience to see that the man is behind her but the teenage girl in the film is unaware that she is there.

Here is another example from the same similar social groups for our sequence. I wanted to show other examples to show how our film opening is similar to other films of the same genre. As you can see by their facial expressions that something isn't quite right, which gives the audience a sense of suspension. This is what sort of reaction we wanted because we wanted out film opening to be quite dark and scary and make the audience on the edge of their seas.