The film includes a female character representing a middle-class English teenage girl studying in college, shown to be innocent and on her phone frequently like most teenage girls. It also includes a male stalker character dressed in all black to appear evil and scary without being too obvious initially to build suspense. Camerawork, lighting, editing and sound were used to manipulate audience perception of the characters, with dark lighting for the male and bright lighting for the female. While diverging somewhat from genre conventions by not using props for the male, the representations generally reinforce social stereotypes with the upbeat female and negatively portrayed stalker male.

1. How does your product
represent particular social
groups?
Adam Lancaster – Media Studies

2. What characters have you included in your film and
what social groups do they represent?
 The female character in our opening represents a young English
teenage girl who is studying at college, who is of a middle class.
She is shown to present herself in a good manor by dressing up
nicely and doing nice makeup, looking to impress. She is shown to
be on her phone like most teenage girls and the majority of the
opening scene is her on it. Our female character is innocent and
has been made to look this way as it is a common convention
through Phycological Thrillers and we thought we would use that
convention in our work and make our female character innocent
and helpless.
 Our female character being on her phone and trying to look
nice represents the majority of teenage girls that are attending
college of this era. This makes our opening relatable to many
teenage girls and to our target audience.

3.  Our first male character in our opening, represents a
dark and evil character of a stalker. He isn't a
relatable character however this is our aim to make
him someone that you can not relate as he is such a
strange and weird character. We made him out to
represent an evil character so that it shows the
opposite to the innocent female, and is a Thriller
convention that the male character is the creepy and
scary one.
 We decided to dress him in a way that it wasn’t too
obvious that he was a bad character at the start to
create suspense and so that it didn’t give it away to
soon, however by dressing him in all black helped
the audience suggest that he is an evil and bad
minded character.
What characters have you
included in your film and
what social groups do they
represent?

4. How have you constructed ideas about your character
through mise en scene, camerawork, editing and sound?
 We manipulated the audiences perception of the male character, me by wearing black clothing
making the audience think that I am a bad and dark character. This was also perceived by the use
of the lighting, which was made dull and dark so that it gave the effect that he was spooky.
 However with the female character, was shown in a happy light, with good and bold lighting
showing that she is positive and is meant to be perceived as happy.
 We used the idea of Mise en scene to create our bathroom so that it relates to the characters by
using props such as makeup brushes and mirrors so that it is like a stereotypical teenage girls
bathroom so they can relate.
 Editing also played a huge role in portraying ideas behind our characters, whenever I, the bad
character was seen on screen we use dull and dark lighting and at some points used effects to
create spookiness.
 We represented the girl as a middle class teenager as she is dressed well and stereotypically to
this gender at this time.

5. To what extent are your character representations
typical of your film's genre?
 The characters in our film opening deviate from real life films of
the same genre.
 With our genre of Phycological Thrillers it is typical for the male
characters to be scary and the evil one and if so to wear dark
clothing to show that, perhaps with sometimes a mask or even a
full scary costume, however we did not use props like these with
ours as we felt that it did not suit our beginning however films of
the same genre do still do that.

6. In what ways do your representations
reinforce or challenge social stereotypes?
 Our opening of our final piece shows that there are
stalkers out there and that it is mostly because of
social media and phones. We used the idea of Text
messages as a creepy and spooky effect as we
thought it'd be relatable and is scary. We represent
stalkers in a negative light using dark lighting and
eary music to show that they are not nice.
 Our female character is represented well as
stereotypes, as the way she dressed and acted is
relatable to teenage girls. We used upbeat and
high-key lighting when filming our female actress to
show this.