Answer to AS Media evaluation question

2. GROUPS WE HAVE CHOSEN TO SHOW AND OUR
MAIN CHARACTER:
The groups we have chosen to show in our film are…
Teenagers, different classes and genders.
There were many ways we showed our chosen groups. They
included clothing style, clothing colour and location.
Our main character in the film is an average teenage girl.
She finds herself in a situation that most teenagers will
hopefully never experience. She is approached by a
hooded figure, who appears to attack her.

3. STYLE OF CLOTHING AND COLOUR:
Because we wanted our film to affect the target audience
of teenagers as they would relate to the characters
closest. We chose to represent many similarities
between teenage girls in society and our film
character. The key way we did this was through the
style of clothing. Our character wears Black
leggings, long white t-shirt and a brown and white
faux fur hooded coat. This style of clothing is very
similar to what many teenage girls wear in society in
the present day. The colour of her clothing also
portrays certain feelings and emotions. She wears a
white t-shirt; white is used to show innocence and
insecurity. Many young girls wear white in films to
show how innocent they are and the audience feel
weary and develop a relationship with the character
and therefore become worried and scared as the girls
future starts to be written during the film.

4. CHOICE OF LOCATION:
We used a desolate remote location near a railway arch. This
showed that because of the tight railway arch nothing
could be seen by onlookers. This is because the location
was in the middle of nowhere, where there were very few
residents. The remoteness of the location also shows that
an attack could happen anytime without being seen by
eyewitnesses not just at night.

5. GENDER :
The portrayal of gender is key in thriller films, the male
character is strong and powerful and the female is weak
and most likely gets caught up in something and needs
rescuing. In our film we chose to represent gender as a
major juxtaposition as it puts a twist on the common
convention that the male is the most powerful. At the start
the female appears to be weak and the male character is
the most powerful as he appears to attack her. However
we see the female character walking away and the more
dominant and powerful male lying on the floor
unconscious or possibly even dead.

6. CLASS:
We showed different classes in our film, as the
lower class character is usually the attacker or
antagonist and the wealthier middle or upper
class character is the protagonist. This is the
case as in our film the antagonist is of working
class as they wear work boots and basic nonbranded clothing. The protagonist is clearly of
a higher class, most likely middle as she has
wealthier clothing including the coat and also
has more expensive technology including her
IPhone that is clearly displayed in the shots.

7. STEREOTYPES AND MESSAGES:
The main stereotype that we are using is that teenage girls
are innocent and insecure when alone in non-public
locations. Even though this stereotype is strong we also
challenged this because at the end of the opening we see
that the girl has defeated the attacker and shows that not
all teenage girls are innocent and insecure about their
surroundings. This relating to the common saying
“Angels with dirty faces”.
The key message we are giving our audience of teenagers is
to be weary and not go out alone around secluded, nonresidential locations and especially not at night. If you go
in a group you will look less vulnerable and also there will
be more of you to protect each other if anything was to
happen.