1. How does your media product represent
different social groups?

2.  We identified our target audience for our
film in our research by conducting a survey.
Our results told us that most of the people
who answered our survey were aged 16-30.
 Most of our target audience were female
although this was not a huge majority.

3.  The main social group we have represented in
our projects is teenagers. When we asked our
target audience what characters they would like
to star in the film they responded “a group of
teenagers”.
 Although we only had one teenage actress, this
was because we were only creating the first two
minutes. If we had gone on to make the rest of
the film there would be more teenage cast.
 We wanted to use teenagers as they are
stereotypically rebellious and irresponsible so we
thought this would make the Horror film more
interesting.

4.  House of Wax (2005) is a Horror film the
represents the teenage social group.

5.  Our main character was a female teenager.
We used a girl as we wanted her to appear a
victim and show her vulnerability as this is
stereotypical of female characters,
particularly in Horror films.
 Our actress wore a white night dress for her
costume to connote her innocence and to fit
the stereotype of her gender.

6.  The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) represents a
stereotypical female playing a victim.
 Alex’s costume in our film is similar to the actress in The
Exorcism of Emily Rose as they both wear quite long, white
dresses which suggest naivety and vulnerability.
Screenshot from our filmScreenshot from The Exorcism of Emily Rose

7.  The Exorcist (1978) portrays a younger female
character who is also weak and helpless. She is
also wearing a similar costume to the one Alex is
wearing in our own project.