Evaluation Question 2 (Mustafa Mohammed)

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

Our opening sequence does not represent older or female social groups the only social group shown are white male teenagers as the victim and antagonist.

In the media, particularly the news teenagers in general are represented as being “hooded, gang affiliated thieves” this opinion has gained mass acceptance especially after the London riots of last summer in which teenagers of a many backgrounds took part in the riots which caused millions of pounds worth of damage across the city of London, this negative view of teenagers is the conventional view of many people.

Our opening sequence conventionally represents teenagers as being violent and out of touch with society as our antagonist is a teenager that stalks and murders people thus suiting the negative imagery portrayed in the media, we did this as we would like to represent what people are familiar with instead of challenging their views as it would have been difficult to show teenagers as being positive and nice  people in the introduction of a horror film.These social conventions can be seen through the clothing worn by both characters jeans, hoodies and  beanie hats this clothing is typical teenage clothing and is what they would conventionally wear, this applies to the antagonist especially as he is wearing a hoodie with a hood down which is one of the symbols of youth violence and gangs immediately suggesting that the character is trouble.

Although in terms of behavior they are not represented conventionally as everything done in the opening sequence is average e.g. walking, getting on bus, sitting on the wall;and to add to this there is no dialouge this goes against the conventional view that teenagers are very social and interactive and may suggesst that are two characters are unique.