1. Q2:How does your media
product represent
particular social
groups.?
The use of a male antagonist is a
regressive representation ,this is
because it conforms to traditional
values in horror and in the media
such as Males use of violence to
dominate. We showed this in our
film opening with the male being
very aggressive towards his victim,
repeatedly kicking him in the face This clip from our opening shows
and beating him. Many films in the the Antagonist repeatedly kicking
horror genre use male antagonists the victim reinforcing the
such as ‘The Amityville Horror’. regressive views of males as
violent characters.

2. The disabled are also
another social group that
are represented in our film
opening. They are
represented regressively
through our antagonist as
there are connotations of This is one of the
him having mental health antagonists from ‘the
issues, This is a common hills have eyes’ you
theme in horror used in can see how the use
many films such as ‘Hills
Have Eyes'' (through of make up is used to
appearance) and make him seem
‘‘Jamaica Inn’’. These deformed.
films, as well as our
opening, show The non verbal
stereotypical ideas of language used by
disability through actions the actor ,as well
and non-verbal language,
For example….. as the narrative
create as sense
of oddity about
the character.

3. The use of a male
protagonist ,as opposed to
the conventional female
victim, makes the
representation more
complex. This is because,
although the representation
of the antagonist as a male
is regressive, the unusual
idea of a male victim is
progressive, as it moves
away from the convention
of an aggressive male
behaviour towards women
which is an ever apparent A shot of our protagonist who gives a
narrative in horror films progressive representation of men in the
such as ‘Spit On Your horror genre.
Grave’.
A classic portrayal of a
male antagonist from ‘I
spit on your grave’

4. Femininity and ethnic groups
were not represented in our Unconventional
film opening, The reason we male protagonist.
left out females was due to
stereotypical idea in horror
films of an innocent young
weak female such as in
‘Scream 4 and ’Craven
2011’. We wanted to replace
this with an unconventional
figure of a strong young
male. We created this
through non-verbal
language, such as his
posture, very upright and
with purpose, something Stereotypical protagonist from
many young confident male ,scream 4.
teens have. This move away
from the conventional
aspects of a teen horror, I
believe, created greater
effect as it gave a
progressive view of males
but also created greater
shock to the audience when
even a strong character can
become the victim.

5. Homosexuality was
represented in our film
opening in a very regressive
way ,The antagonist was
clearly desirous of this young
man and if you look closely at
the writing on the wall the
connation is that he in fact
loves the protagonist or is
infatuated with him ,This
however gives the negative
representation as it makes the
antagonist seem he has The writing on the wall reinforces
underlying mental health the negative representation of
issues and reinforces the homosexuals being intense
stereotypical views people ,crazy and strange.
have about homosexual
people but also goes further to
say that they are mental
psychopaths.
A classic media representation of
the homosexual community ,is
very regressive whereas our
antagonist challenges this
stereotype positively.

6. The macro issues we
explored in our film opening
were the violent nature and
tendencies of men along
with the views in society of
the mentally unstable.
Our film opening conforms Raul mote a media
to the media representation representation of a mentaly
of male violence in the unstable aggressive male
brutal acts of our antagonist .Resembles closely our
but is then in contrast antagonist.
contradicted by our
protagonist who is a male
but shows no intention of
violence in his acts.
Also the mentally, unwell
image we display in our
opening conforms to the
media image of mentally
unstable people being
violent and not properly Stephen Lawrence innocent
socialised. male who was killed for no
reason is similar to our
protagonist.