Evaluation - Q2 - How does your media product present particular social groups?

Our film, 'Shadow' is a horror/thriller about a girl being stalked whose friends, family and anyone close to her are being killed by this murderer.
Because of the nature of the film and the genre this is situated in I believe particular social groups can be presented through our film.
I think we have done this through the use of characters.

Mollie, who is our main character is a young teenage girl who is living a relatively normal life and has never encountered anything like this in her whole life. The fact she is the one being targeted may be because of her vulnerability. We chose a female character because stereotypically women may be considered to be the weaker sex when it comes to these situations. In the majority of horror/thriller films women are usually vulnerable and in most cases, die. However we decided to make Mollie the protagonist and actually overcome and beat this antagonistic serial killer which may be deemed weird in this genre. The fact Mollie overcomes and beats the situation by finding out who the killer/stalker is shows how strong she is and how determined she is to find the person who is causing so much devastation to her and who is left in her family. So this character in particular represents women in the current day as stereotypically women are weak however this shows that maybe thats not the case so this represents the strength of women as shown through our character in the film.

Also the stalker is also stereotypically a male. Obviously the audience do not find this out until the end as that is how the film is planned out. However the fact the stalker is a male is stereotypical as no-one would expect a stalker who also murders people to be a female as males are stereotypically more aggressive and more known for modern day as more likely to murder or stalk, especially if the victim is a female. This therefore represents males as an aggressive, violent gender who think they will never lose however in the end he does in fact get caught out therefore showing that eventually he will lose. This represents the male gender as this may be the case in most modern day males, by the the fact they may think they will always win, not necessarily the part to do with the murder. The murder is just there to represent males characteristics.

Another social group which is represented through our film is teenagers. In the film most of the characters are teenagers as the film is based around a character who is still at school. Teenagers are stereotyped to be immature, irresponsible people who act without thinking of the consequences first.
In the film, Mollie is a strong character who finds out in the end who is the stalker which shows determination and the strength which shows that the stereotype of immaturity isn't the case in most teenagers its just that certain teenagers do give that representation. However through our film we are showing that there are different types, not all are the same.

So in our film we do present a various range of different social groups in different ways within our film as we present males, females, teenagers etc. This shows we have thought about the characters and what we wanted the audience to think when they watch our final product.