Evaluation 2How does your media product represent particular social groups?

What are ‘social groups’?

A social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity.

Types of social groups:

Primary:

Secondary:

What social groups are represented in your media?

The main social group represented in our media is primary, because the three main protagonists, Ida Teaganand Keira are all friends, showing clear unity between them.

Later in the film it may expand into representing secondary social groups because there would be a search for Lily and the other 2 girls that go missing, so there might have been policemen and communities involved.

Age

In psychological thrillers, teenagers are often represented as weak and naïve. Our film vaguely represents this as the three main protagonists are seen running away, and our camera angles are often high, looking down on our characters to make them look vulnerable.

In contrast, there is a low angle looking up at Lily (8 years old) which contradicts this convention.

Gender

Our main protagonists are female which represents them as being weak and vulnerable.

In contrast, we juxtaposed this idea with a young female antagonist, which should make the audience feel more unnerved as they wouldn’t normally be seen as the stronger, more powerful character.

In thrillers, there is typically a strong male lead antagonist and sometimes a ‘hero’ protagonist too. We went against this idea to bring something new to the film industry. Later in the film there may have been some male policemen to search for the girls, representing them as powerful and heroic (if they actually manage to save the girls by the end of the film…).