How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Because my media product only has two actors in it, it's difficult to stereotype them into a social group, and difficult to represent them in a social group. You could say the male actor stereotypes a specific teenager; skinny jeans, big jacket and coloured straightened hair, this is part of Mise-en-scene. On the other hand, we also have the female killer character. She is wearing a plain hoodie and black trousers, this is plain and simple but it's subtle so that we never know who it is. In most horror films, we don't see the face of the killer so this is stereotypically how they should be seen. This automatically makes you think that something is up with this person that they are not nice and most likely the 'bad guy', so you could put this person into a 'social group' although they aren't.
The film opening also takes away the myth and stereotype of women being the vulnerable victim and a male killer/bad guy. This is complete opposite with vulnerable male and female killer.
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