How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product includes a number of people which are all represented as individuals in groups in certain ways. This is through their age, ethnicity, gender and physical ability.
The first character we see is 'Eve' played by Danielle Guichard who is a seventeen year old female who is British and a fully 'able being'. She wears casual clothes and walks talks and behaves in a slightly reserved manner. The second and third characters which are seen next are the two boys (Kane Guichard and Blayze White) which are in the cellar scene, they are both seventeen year old males, who are British and fully 'abled beings'. They both wear casual clothes and walk, talk and behave in a 'normal' manner. The forth and final character which we see in the opening is the ghost, she is a seventeen year old females who was British but is technically not alive so not an 'abled being'. She is represented in a negative fashion becuase she is brutal and violent to innoccent people, this is not sterotypical for females.
All of our characters in the opening are from the working class, we showed this by the location which they are seen in; a town where the residents are typically working class. We also emphasised this by showing the main character 'Eve' working in a pub which is the D social group, an slightly skilled job. The rest of the characters; the ghost and the two boys are all from the socual class E. This is becuase they are all unemployed, as the ghost is dead and the two boys are students.
More about the ways of our characters...
In our film there are only two main characters, ‘Eve’ played by Danielle Guichard and the Ghost played by Danielle Burns. They are both females of white ethnicity, we decided to have both of the main characters white because it is stereotypical in horror movies and it was easier finding two white people to act from the area we chose from. We also chose them to be British to show that it is a British film for the British people, so that they would be easily understood. (Accent wise!). When planning how the characters would act we thought that ‘Eve’ must seem likeable and the Ghost must seem more menacing, we chose these personifications as we thought this may split the audience into two sides of who they wanted to ‘win’. Within the first two minutes you only really see one side of the protagonist ‘Eve’, this is to keep the audience guessing on what her personality is really like, within the opening she seems reserved from other people. Also throughout the film you see parts of the ghosts past which help people to understand why she acts in the way she does, almost feeling sorry for her until she ‘snaps’ back to her evil ways.
In our film there are many extras, such as the two people seen in the first scene ‘Eric’ and ‘Jim’ played by Kane Guichard and Blayze White. These extras are very important to the film as they are the beloved friends and family of the protagonist ‘Eve’. In order for the emotional side of the film to work the family and friends must be likeable to the audience otherwise they will not mind them been brutally murdered.
All of our character are either from the social class E or D, this is due to their age so they are still students at school, or they have lowly skilled jobs. We chose to have characters from this social group because the majority of our target audience are from these, therefore they are able to relate to the film more.
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