Evaluation - Q2.

Question 2: How does your media product represent different social groups?

For our film, we decided to use a female character to play our victim. 

We found that many other horror films follow this convention and use female characters as their victims; including 'Sorority Row', 'Black Christmas', 'Scream', 'Psycho' and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. These female victims are usually dressed in white, and the connotations of this colour are innocence, purity, and goodness, which make them seem vulnerable.
We therefore chose to follow convention by dressing our main victim, Alice, in a mostly white costume. We did not feel it would be realistic, however, for her to be wearing a completely full white outfit, considering the time and place in which our film is set. Instead, we dressed her in a casual top and jeans, along with a white jumper over the top, to represent the middle-class background and teenage age group in which she is a part of. 

Through placing these victims in horror in isolated environments alone, the audience is made to sympathise with them, perhaps even relating with their characters. They are often presented to the audience in close-ups or high-angle shots, which emphasise their fear and vulnerability, and it could be said that through these elements, the young female social group are represented in the media as being vulnerable, helpless, and unable to defend themselves; which is reflected throughout many different films of the genre.