The document discusses how social groups are represented in a media production. It represents youth as mysterious and scary, shown through the behavior of the boys exploring and a frightening young girl. White people are represented simply by being the race of all characters. Deceased people are portrayed as very pale and scary, belonging more to the underworld than the living world, according to the music. Youth innocence is enhanced through the set design of a young girl's room, while makeup transforms the girl into a deathly creature.

1. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
Question 2

2. Social groups that appear in
our production
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Youth
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White

Dead

3. How are they represented?
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Youth- In our production youth groups
are presented to be slightly mysterious
and in the case of the girl quite scary
and unknown. They also follow the
dominant ideology that teenagers want
to explore and be adventurous by the
way the boys go into the house alone.

White- The fact that all our characters
are white has no relevance what so
ever but they are still a social group so
should be mentioned.
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Deceased- In our production just like
many other horror films our little dead
girl is presented as being very scary
and pale. Through the music we tried
to infer that she no longer belongs in
this world and does not fit in with the
living.

4. How we constructed these
representations

Youth- The innocence of youth in our
production was heavily enhanced by
the mise-en-scene of the room. We
placed many items that this little girl
would have been likely to own. For
example the rocking horse in the
corner greatly added to the overall
scare of the room
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We made our little girl look
even more deathlike through
the use of make-up which
turned her from an ordinary girl
into a creature of the
underworld