This document summarizes the characters in the film The Descent. Holly is an adventurous sports woman, while Sam is a medical student and the youngest of the group. Rebecca is Sam's older sister and protective of her. Juno is the leader of the group who led them into danger. Sahara is still mourning her late husband and child. Beth is a teacher but also enjoys adventures, though not extreme danger. The document also analyzes images from the film and discusses media effects theories like the hypodermic needle model, two-step flow model, and uses and gratifications model in the context of how the film portrays modern societal ideas and norms.

1. Decent part 7 task 2&3
By Danni Manley

2. Holly is the woman who
lives on interning. She
likes to try out new things
and doesn't think of the
consequences. She is a
very active sports woman
who has plenty of sports
experience.
Sam is the younger sister of Rebecca so
she protects Sam, but Sam wants to be
more independent. She is a medical
student so she is still at University and
she is the youngest one in the group
who wants to be accepted by them.
Rebecca is the older
sister of Sam so she
feels like she has to
protect her. She
introduces Sam to the
group and is like a
mother figure for
Sam.
Juno is the leader of the
group. She is the one
who made everyone to
go in the wrong cave
on purpose. Everyone
trusts her and she is the
one who introduced
Holly to the group.
Sahara is the reason the film
exists, they all
went
caving to try and
cheerer her up. She is close
friends with Beth and she is still
in morning about her husband
and child dying.
Beth is a qualified English
teacher who likes adventures
but doesn't like to be in real
danger. She is always
equipped with safety things.
She is best friends with
Sarah, she notice things that
others do. Beth is loyal to
Sara so she doesn't tell her about her husbands affair with Juno.
She would of confronted Juno about it but other things go in the
way.

3. In this picture the women are all
sitting around comfortably in
there PJ’s. This shows that they
are all friends who trust each
other because they aren't bothered
about what they all think about
each other. This image shows the
girly side of them because this is
what girls do.
This image of the women shows that they
stick together and nothing could come
between them to spit them up. They are all
equal because there isn’t really a leader of
the pack. This image shows that they are
adventures, the women are all in vests in
the rain and have cuts on them shows that
they are hard, tough independent women.

4. You can tell they have some
chemistry between them just by
looking at the image. The man Paul is
helping Juno and she is letting him
help her. The way they are looking at
each other you can see the love
between them. Paul is Sarah’s
husband so this shows that he is
having an affair with Sahara's friend.
In this image you can tell that Sarah is
a killer. She has blood all over her and
she has no cuts. The way how she is
about to swing the pick axe shows that
she can be violently dangerous and is
about to kill someone. Unlike the
crawlers who like for food, Sahara
kills because she is angry and upset.

5. Media Effects and the Audience
By Danni Manley

6. Hypodermic needle model
In the decent the theory is that people react to different things
in different ways depending on there own experiences in life.
When a something shocking happens like when Holly broke
her leg people gasped in horror. People like to watch horror
movies to get that feeling but knowing that they are safe and
its not real.

7. Two-step flow model
Films will only show what the modern society accept to be ok
regardless of the age rating. They don’t try and enforce a
different opinion into them they just develop society's ideas
and opinions. The idea of Juno seen Paul behind Sahara's back
it is known to happen in society and people except it. If this
fim was releaced in the 50’s it wouldn't’t get released because
that was not acceptable.

8. Use and gratifications model
The decent doesn't make something up to create entertainment
and drama, they take something out of society that we accept
and put it into the film. The idea of Juno seeing Paul behind
Sara's back, the idea of betrayal is what stereotypically women
do in real life. The fact that the two sisters go and leave the
rest of the group is also a form of betrayal.