Evaluation Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents particular social groups through the use of clothing used, as both characters in the opening title sequence wore casual clothes such as jeans, a t shirt, sneakers and hoody’s. This shows the audience that both characters are of the same social standing and that most teenagers wear similar clothes.

Our opening title sequence also conforms to the stereotype that teenagers get up to mischief and are not fully aware of what they are getting themselves into. We have shown this by having the 2 characters trespass a farm on which there was an isolated barn where they broke into to play the Ouija board. Many of the people in the audience may also relate to the characters, which shows that we have represented them stereotypically, as many teenagers don’t take responsibility over certain things, causing them to do stupid things that would get in in some sort of trouble, in this case, them trespassing private property and playing the Ouija board.

We have also used positioning within the frame by placing the 2 characters close together, which indicates that they are friends, which is used in a lot of horror movies, for example Final Destination. This creates a contrast in horror movies between close friendship and separation, as many horror movies start off with a group of friends, which shows friendship, but further in the movie the friends become separated due to certain things happening, for example demons or spirits killing off the friends one by one, which is also shown in Final Destination.

Below is a table i created showing how our opening title sequence represents social groups