The document discusses how a media product represents social groups. It summarizes that the main characters in a thriller are two teenage girls dressed in regular clothes, located in a family home to seem normal. It acknowledges the stereotype of depicting female characters as weak but notes how the story challenges this by having the girls overcome the curse instead of becoming victims. The goal is for the audience to feel they could experience the horror of "Bloody Mary" themselves through relatable, normal main characters.

1. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
Question Two.

2. In our thriller opening we used two teenage girls as the main characters
throughout and the narrative of our story-line revolves around them. They
are dressed in regular clothes (one character is wearing a dress with black
tights and the other is wearing jeans and a jumper). We aimed to keep the
characters very basic and simple, what you would expect a large amount of
the teenage population to be, so they are able to relate to people in normal
society. Our location was just in a family home, where you expect two
teenage girls to hang out, this was to again create a sense of normality and it
is what the audience would expect.
The stereotypes that we have identified is deciding to use two female
characters as the leading roles. The reasons behind this both support and
challenge the stereotype. We used girls because they can be seen as weak
in the media and very vulnerable, therefore it would be easy for them to
become of victim of Bloody Mary. However, it challenges this stereotype as
the girls are able to overcome the curse of Bloody Mary and it ends with one
of the characters waking up after experiencing the footage shown to you
before as a dream. This shows that girls are not weak are able to come out
as the stronger character.

3. The message that we are trying to get across to our audience is that the
horror experience of ‘Bloody Mary’ could happen to them, through the use of
‘normal’ people playing the leading roles. It can interest them to watch the
film as they can feel involved and a part of the story we have told. The way
our characters are presented is so the audience can feel as though they
relate to reality and that they are ‘so normal’ that anybody can fall victim of a
paranormal experience.