Wednesday 11 March 2009

Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


When creating our opening sequence my group and I discussed what type of people we want our film to appeal to and decided that our targert audience would be young teenages such as 16 to young adults 25. This gives us a wide audience who will interpret and enjoy the film in different things. We decided on these ages as they are typically the people who enjoy the thriller films and most likely to go and watch it. There is more then this clinche of typical teen targert audience as our thriller throws back to older more traditional styles such as hitchcoak. This would appeal to an older audience as they have watched and apprecitated this style of filming aswell as the cinematic fans. The gives us a varity of people that would enjoy our film.

Within the film are four teenage girls who are very much concerned with their appearence. Many girls will be able to relate to this and appeals to the 16-25 age range. Males will also be appealled to this film as they streotyically enjoy thrillers and hot female characters. Men also know to be masocistic and will enjoy the graphical scenes within the film. Although we have protrayed the power of women and their independence within soecity we have streotypically provided the young girls as victums within the film. This will engage the male audience and creates the sense of simlarity we were trying to create for our audience. It is convention but also challeaging of the representation of women.

My group and I have considered the soical groups of young teens who will be watching the film who are modern and desensitised compared to the older audience who are used to the classic style of film. Due to this we have added blood and gore which is expected, however this does not shock the audience as we have built the suspese. This is an old style we used but different to the more gory style films such as Saw and believe it will have a stronger effect on the audience.

Another soical area we considered was that of money and status. Our target audience as well as characters are middle class, educated people who can afford to watch films. We wanted the people within the film to represent the people that would watch it as it creates a feeling of familarity and draw the audience in. It makes the film more effective on the audience as it feels realistic and as though it could happen to them.

I feel that our title sequence appeals to the certian sterotypical people and represents certain social groups within soecity that will appeal to our audiences. we have made our production to fit into their social area and enable them to relate to the film and issues tha are rised within it.

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