Question 2

-How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our main antagonist was made out to be a scary and psychotic killer. He was mainly inspired by the serial killer Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th. Our character, much like Jason Voorhees, is implied as being very powerful and strong, and uses those attributes to full effect by capturing his victims and is made out that he is almost capable of doing anything to them. We wanted our characters costume to come across as very plain and simple and on that would imitate a typical, modern day, sluggish teenager as no one would expect what hes doing which creates good tension and mystery. We went with the typical joggers and t shirt look which made our character look like the average teenage that had just gotten out of bed and beings to proceed with his morning routine before entering his garage to choose a weapon of his choice.

Its is very typical of the teenagers of today as wearing just simple joggers and a t shirt and this is the image we wanted to created. We wanted the image of the character to contrast with the nature of his whereabouts. Since the character is dressed as a teenager and look no older than 17 we thought this may aim our thriller more towards the teenage audience as in my opinion it is usually that type of audience that watch thrillers.

Another representation of a teenager is when our character goes into his kitchen to pour himself a bowl of cereal. Typically teenagers and kids are known for eating sugary foods and foods that are very easy to prepare because they are stereotypically known for being lazy. So we thought if our character ate a simple sugary food like cereal then it would add to the normalness of the character and keep his contrasting nature hidden. Also teenagers are known for being a bit unhygienic, but we go against that as our character goes to brush there teeth before going downstairs. Again this was to add to the normal nature of our character right up until he goes into the garage.