Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2: Representations

Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. 

Source: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rbeach/teachingmedia/module5/2.htm

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Characters in our opening:

Curtis - The Killer. This character kills the scream queen and the main character, we used narrative enigma to keep his identity hidden until he kills his first victim. He is an escaped patient form a mental asylum seeking revenge on his 'corrupt' doctor.

Jake - The Doctor. This is the main character and is killed last by the killer. He is in a relationship with our scream queen his job role is that he works at the hospital where the killer escaped from

Heather - The scream queen. This character is the doctors girlfriend, she plays the scream queen so she is killed first

Factors which influenced our representations:

• Our primary target audience 

As 15 - 24 is our target audience, this influenced our representations, we used an all teen cast and used slasher conventions such as the scream queen 

• Our secondary target audience

We have many intertextual links in our film which link to much older films that our primary target audience will be unaware of.

• Our BBFC rating

This influenced our representations because we obviously weren't going to include any representations which would exceed our rating, if so our rating would have to be raised

• Typical slasher films

Some of our representations come from slasher films as we used similar conventions to the ones we had seen  in previous slasher films.

Characters:

Jake (STEREOTYPE) 

Jake represented Dr Loomis from Halloween. We tried to use a costume similar to Dr Loomis' character. To do this we chose his costume as smart wear which included a buttoned up shirt and smart chino trousers.
Curtis: (STEREOTYPE)          

I represented Michael Myers from Halloween not because of his mask as i didn't wear a mask, but because of his weapon. However, my costume didn't follow the convention of Michael Myers as i wore a white lab coat.

This is the killer running from the Asylum. The killers costume, is inspired by the patients escape to anchor that the character is a patient. He is wearing the Dr's lab coat and was the reason he was able to escape by disguise. He wears this lab coat throughout the opening.

Heather: (STEREOTYPE)

          

Heather represented Marion Crane from Psycho because she was the scream queen for our film.

Here we have the bottom half of what our scream queen was wearing, we asked her to wear shorts as this  shows a lot of skin especially with the top she was wearing as well. This was used as it is very stereotypical of the scream queen archetype to be blonde and wear revealing clothes.