Task 2- How does your product represent particular social groups?

How does your product represent particular social groups?

Mt product represents teenagers and young people as a social group. In my thriller the main protagonist is a male of 18 years of age and all the other characters in my thriller are teenagers from the ages of 16-17. The story of my product is quite like the saw, our main protagonist wakes up in this dark room not knowing where he is or how he got there, he has been kidnapped. He walks around the room bewildered and looks around. All of a sudden a light turns on and he is blinded by the brightness. He then falls threw a door into the next room in here he finds a torch which he shines around the room only to discover a pile of dead bodies or what he thought was dead bodies. He stares at the bodies and finds that they all have tape on there mouths so he moves closer and takes off the tap from one of the “dead bodies”. A story which has a pretty similar story is Saw 1, two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. Hostel is another film which is similar to my thriller the concept is very much like saw, 3 young boys are traveling and they meet these two beautiful Slovakian girls who lure the boys one by one to there deaths in the factory however one of them survives. I chose to represent teenagers in this way because they are often vilified in the press therefore I chose to subvert the stereotypical notion presented by the media to show teenagers as scared, frightened and anxious. These feeling are common amongst this group at this time in their life and I felt that horror would be the right genre to reflect this.



Look at how social groups are represented in media products and compare these to your own film- how do they differ?

Example of the way teenagers are represented in the news, there is an article about another teenager committing suicide, he is the 19th in a year in this town called Bridgend. The Sun represents the teenagers in this town shocking because there were never any symptoms of depression, nothing suspicious however the hangings are still going on. The Guardian however described Bridgend as dark and depressing: A year ago, Bridgend in south Wales was the centre of a media frenzy as the home of a supposed youth suicide cult. Bridgend was portrayed as dark and depressing - and as the coverage intensified, so did the deaths. Carole Cadwalladr, who barely recognised the description of the place she grew up in, returned to ask friends and family of those who died what role the media played in the tragedy. I chose to represent teenagers as victims because they are never portrayed in this is way.