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Monday 14 February 2011

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our movie, our teens are rather generic naive people who don't suspect anything until it is too late, this is a convention used in other movies following the teen slasher genre of horror.
Our main character, plaid by Craig is a gamer who is talking with his friend, played by Ed, until he parts ways with Ed. Now alone, Craig takes a shortcut through some woods, where he is stalked, pursued and finally stabbed to death by his chaser, who is dressed in casuals with a white mask.
Craig, as the main character, follows the conventions of the initial murder character who is unsuspecting and naive, and as a result this ends in Craig getting murdered by a psychopath.
This bears resemblence to Hostel's Josh, who through his naivity gets dragged into a hostile situation and murdered.
You can notice some similarities between these characters, most noticeably in the age of the characters. Both of the characters (Josh and Craig) wear informal clothing and stand in a slouching manner. They also both get killed in the movie introduction of the film through their naivity, another convention used in many films. Both characters are portrayed as stereotypical teenagers as they both look for fun in life and act in a naive fashion, as of such they both fall into a hostile situation.
During the planning I told Craig to dress in normal every day clothes (old ones as they'd get torn and dirty) and come down to navigation wharf where we filmed the intro, this is because he needed to look like an average teenager, and I believe this worked well.
As a finished product, I'd say Craig represents the teenage social group well, as he dresses in informal clothing, he is naive and he also talks about casual everyday topics such as the internet, this worked to our advantage in the films I believe as they are both common topics for teenagers that wouldn't normally apply to older adults.

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