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1. Evaluation Question 2:
How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
Jordan
Laurel
Katelyn

2. What social group does your main
character represent and why?
Our main character ‘Ojo’ represents teenagers
and young adults who have psychological
problems such as obsession.
We decided to choose this social group because
psychological horrors normally have a
protagonist with an obsessive disorder,
therefore we wanted to conform to the
conventions of a psychological horror.

3. How do you represent your character
through Mise-en-scene?
Costume, lighting makeup and props:
Costume- coat- Ojo wears a big
hooded coat to hide her identity
and isolate herself from the world.
It symbolises that she is hiding her
psychological problems. She also
wears black clothes to symbolise
death and her darkened mind.
Lighting- there is dark bluish lighting
throughout, blue is a symbol of
depression and links to the
psychological problems of Ojo.
Prop-scrapbook- Ojo has a
scrapbook full of images of eyes
from magazines and drawings. This
scrapbook symbolises her obsession
with eyes and she clutches to
symbolises that its her secret
possession that she holds dear.
Costume- she wears black
clothes to symbolise death
and her dark personality
which helps establish that
she has psychological
problems.
This character is a
school child on her way
to school-this shows
that Ojo seeks out for
the vulnerable people
to kill.
Prop-rope- this symbolises
that Ojo likes to trap her
characters and make sure
that they cannot escape.

4. Facial Expression and Body Language
Ojo’s body language suggests that she
is very secretive as she holds herself
and grabs onto herself or her
possessions (the scrapbook). This
shows that she is a mysterious
character who blocks out the outside
world.
Victim 2’s face is
confused and worried
presenting them as
vulnerable and scared.
Victim 1 has a scrutinising facial
expression which symbolises that
she is a judgemental character
who Ojo wants to punish.

5. Locations
Inside of the main characters bedroom is
really dark so it is not visibly a bedroom,
this adds to their mysterious character as
the audience will guess where they are.
This also conforms to the stereotype that
those with psychological issues are often
isolated is a room.
We also filmed in a park to challenge the
stereotype that those with psychological
problems stay inside. We also did this to
show that people with psychological
problems could be anywhere.
We filmed in a tight alleyway as
the walls almost seem to close up
on you which symbolises Ojo’s
isolation, which also links in with
psychological problems.

6. How do you represent your character
through the camera shots and editing?
Through camera shots our main
character is represented as
mysterious as the over the shoulder
shot means that you can’t see what
they’re doing and the long shot
means that you cant see their
identity and it shows that Ojo is
very secretive as she holds her
hands up to cover her face.
The eye line match of
victim 2 presents her as
confused and worried
about what Ojo has
dropped which presents
Ojo as a weird and
suspicious character.

7. How do you represent your character
through the music?
Through the music our main character is represented
as a mysterious gloomy teenager at the beginning of
the scene, as the non diegetic music sounds eerie and
ghoulish.
When victim 2 appears in the alleyway more sounds
are introduced (such as a windy sound that sounds like
whispering), to indicate that danger is approaching
(Ojo) and the whispering symbolises the ghosts of the
people that Ojo has killed in the past, warning the
victim.