How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The horror genre tends to stereotype when representing different social groups. Gender in particular is represented very stereotypically; females are seen as the “weaker” gender and are often the characters under threat from the supernatural aspect or the character who is cowering scared. Males are seen as the “stronger” gender; this is presented in horror films by males often being shown as the “hero” character that comes to the rescue of the damsel in distress. Age in horror film is something that is slightly harder to see in my opinion; films seem to generally be based around a certain age group, typically teenagers and young adults. Teenagers and other younger characters are represented as naive, immature, gullible, and unreliable, whereas older characters are presented as wiser, grumpy, and in some cases more vulnerable.
To accommodate the gender representation, we used a mixture of male and female characters. Our victim #1 was a female, having her already dead represents that she must have been weaker than the attacker at the time, and also makes her appear vulnerable. She is dressed in pink and white (pale colours) to make her appear more feminine, pink is a stereotypically “girly” colour and the paleness of the colour used makes her appear younger and more vulnerable. Our representation of males was mixed as both our jogger and vampire were males. Our jogger was seemingly a stereotypical male as he would appear physically conscious to the audience as he is out jogging, and from the soundtrack the audience would tell that he is educated on issues – things that we associate as more masculine traits. Our vampire is represents males as strong and dangerous – again stereotypical traits. His costume is designed to make him appear as if he has a smart past but has recently gone rogue, his shirt and tie attire makes him seem more mature and smart, which are stereotypically more male features.
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