Evaluation of my

1. How Does Your Media Product
Represent Particular Social
Groups?
Will Ellis

2. Age
 Both of the characters cast in my film are teenagers.
In Films:
 Jake (The character played by Jack,) is a typical teenager, dressed in
black.
 Compared to other horror films, Jack is a typical main, teenage
protagonist, as his nervousness and uneasiness creates that same
feeling in a viewer.
 On the other hand, Jack is not represented as a hero, only a victim.
Which countertypes how main teenage protagonists are represented in
horror films.
In Real Life:
 In real life teenagers are presumed to be dangerous/unpredictable, and
I think the character of Jake doesn’t fit these stereotypes.
 Also, the lazy and rebellious stereotypes are not shown in the opening
two minutes of Delirium. Instead, the character of Jake is active.
 However, teenagers are also thought to be naive and vulnerable, and
the character of Jake fits that stereotype.
 The stereotype of a teenager caring about fashion is also challenged in
my representation, as Jake is dressed in all black.

3. Shia LaBeouf -
Disturbia
Jack Dunkley -
Delirium
Uneasiness.
Same
coloured
clothing.
Represented as hero. Represented as
victim.
Key:
Difference/Coun
tertype.
Similarity/Stereo
type

4.  Lizzie (the character played by Sarah) is a
countertype of the representation of teenagers.
In Films:
 For example, she is represented in a similar way to
the “creepy girl” in horrors, who are normally younger.
Her bland speech and innocent clothing show this.
 An example of this is the twin girls in The Shining, or
the s.
In Real Life:
 In real life she is also a countertype. As you wouldn’t
expect a normal teenager to act the way that she
does.
 For example, the common stereotypes of a teenager
is that they are egocentric, lazy, rebellious and so on.
The character of Lizzie doesn’t replicate any of these
stereotypes.

5. The Twins - The
Shining
Sarah Jane Eyre -
Delirium
Innocent clothing
Bland facial expression
TeenagerChildren

6. Gender
 My media product countertypes the usual
representation of gender.
 Normally, males are portrayed as dominant and
females are portrayed as vulnerable. In my film,
it’s the exact opposite; Lizzie is dominant and
Jake is vulnerable.