Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film ‘obsession’ one of the particular social groups that is conveyed is youth. This is represented through mise en scene, so this means the characters clothing and also the props used. The clothing the characters are wearing are fashionable, and of the latest trends which shows they are ‘teenagers’, also the props used by the teenagers such as the iPod used by Lucy and the cigarette as typically things that we would associate with youth, and that the media associates with youth as being anti-social behaviors. These representations fit our sub genre very well, because within slasher films killers often murder the victims as a punishment for something they have done and therefore as for youth and there bad representations they deserve to be punished. 

screen shot of lucy's boyfriend being a rebel, shows negative representations of youth and within the sub genre of slasher films it is typical behaviours as it shows there is a motive for punishment.

screen shot of lucy walking and as you can see she's representing youth with the clothing she is wearing which is vans, leggings and a rolling stones t-shit  

screen shot of lucy taking her headphones out this represents youth because she has her  iPod in her hand.

Another social group that is conveyed in our film is gender. In our film this is shown through binary opposites male vs female. We instantly know that the killer is a male character, this is through mise en scene by the killer wearing black leather gloves and also through the deep heavy breathing, this shows us that our victim is a weak character and shows that the male is the more dominant and stronger character.

From the research on slasher films i have done the idea of binary opposites, male vs female is shown in the film scream. When the female character is on the phone to the male stranger who is the killer she begins to feel intimidated and scared showing that the male is the more dominant character and has power over the female.

women starts to feel intimidated by the male character on the phone- 3:29

black leather glove showing that the killer is male

deep heavy breathing - 1:45