Hanadi Afendi Question 2 -How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As we were aiming our film at teenagers from a both positive and negative light. In any film we have realised that stereotypically teenagers are image conscious, always obsessed with how they look and what they wear, so appearance and popularity was very significant so we used this in our final product. Our opening sequence represents white female teenagers who are obsessed with their appearance as we see the application of the lipstick been shown more than once making the girl (the murderer) feeling the need to look pretty can imply this. Appearance to any girl is very important regardless whether they are a murderer or not. As a whole, white female teenagers as a social group are being represented as there are statistical facts that show that over half of female teenagers are unhappy with how they look. From the pictures above we can see that make up can also be shown as a mask and imply that she has two split personalities.

To do this we have made sure we had a white female teen quite attractive with the stereotypical long blonde hair, slim and tall and quite pretty. This was because it will gain the interests from the audience from both genders. Although this is a form of stereotype of teenage girls our film is more complex than this. Our protagonist has mental illness the use of repetition movements can show this as she’s obsessed with looking pretty and kills anyone that could be a threat to her at being prom queen. Mental illness is shown through other psychological thrillers such as ‘orphan’ and ‘Dream House’. We can see that she is quite close to her mum as well as at the beginning we can see her stroke the photo frame of when her parents won prom king and queen but through her mental illness ended up killing her as she would envy her mothers beauty. Through these pictures below we can see that the protagonist is obsessed with beauty through the repetition of shots used to emphasise her putting lipstick on which can also reveal the mental illness inside of her.  Through both Our film , ‘Orphan’ and ‘Dream House’ mental illness is the cause of why others are being murdered.