How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media product represents the teenage social group in a different way as it doesn't completely fit the stereotype of teenagers. Our two main actors are both teenagers and represent the same age group the bbfc age certificate is 15.
In our film the teenagers are normal teenagers in the first 30 seconds as they ignore the locked gate and jump over (typical behaviour of teenagers today) because it is normal for teenagers to do so we have avoided offending any teenagers; our villain is a young girl who the teenagers fear. Children aren't the most popular thing that teenagers are afraid of, in normal horror films the villain is a crazy person or a ghost sometimes even children but teenagers are normally shown to be afraid of children.
We have avoided being predictable as before the identity is revealed everyone is waiting to see something big and scary when all it comes down to is a a quick flash of the little girl. By using the little girl we have widened the expectations of the film. We have done this by changing around what people expect to see and putting in what they least expect to see.
We have represented the teenagers as clueless and adventurous, which is what is portrayed in the film opening.
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