The document discusses how a media product represents teenagers as the target social group. It uses a typical teenage girl as the sole character so as not to represent any particular social group or exclude others. Scenes were designed to be relatable to a teenage/young adult audience by portraying the character home alone like many of them after school. The mise-en-scene of her bedroom and clothes were crafted to depict a stereotypical "girly girl" teenager to match thriller conventions and engage the intended young audience.

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

2. Our main/only character
We chose to use a typical teenage
girl, one who doesn’t represent a These are
particular social group or exclude any similar clothes
other social groups. By not
representing a particular social group as to ones she
means that we aren’t disclosing is wearing in
anything, we’re not trying to drag in the thriller.
too much detail into the first 2
minutes of our thriller opening.
We wanted our audiences to be able
to relate to the events happening in
our thriller. We thought that the
viewers would be mostly teenagers
and early adults. We figured that
many of them, much like the girl in
the film would come home to an
empty house when their parents are
at work. By having the house dark as
she walked in, shows that she is alone
and much like many of the audience
would be home alone. The audience
can then relate to the story line
because they have been in similar
circumstances therefore getting more
worried about the teenage girl.

3. Examples from other thriller films
representing teenagers as their main
characters
All of these thriller films fall under
the typical conventions of the
thriller genre, whereby their main
characters are all teenagers and
the majority of them were girls.
As we saw this as a very popular
route, we thought of doing the
same with our thriller opening.
Our media product is a
representation of the modern day
film industry using typical
conventions of teenagers to
engage with their overwhelming
teenage audience.

4. Why we chose to focus on this social
media group
From our research we figured that we were aiming our thriller at a young
audience between the ages of 15-25. This meant that we had to adapt it to
suit the viewing audience. We managed to do this well by using a teenager as
the main character, we all felt that we would be more inclined to watch a film
if the main character is close to our age therefore able to relate and create a
feel of comfort.
We didn’t want so specifically focus on a typical social stereotype, but looking
back we feel that we have by the age of the actress as it reflects modern day
teenagers that all fall into one category, that being young.
We feel that because all four of us are either 16 or 17 we felt that it would be
appropriate to use the same age actress in our thriller as we can make it
realistic opposed to us trying to relate to a different social group we haven’t
any ideas about.

5. How our character represents that
social group
We feel that our actress (Felicia) fits the social
group very well on and off the camera. Off the
camera she is a bubbly teenager who is very
friendly. In contrast to this we feel that on camera
we tried to make her seem as if she wasn’t secluded
from any social group in particular. We had her
friend dropping her home; therefore illustrating
that she is sociable and this also adds to the fact
that she is home alone, much like many other
teenagers when they get home before their
parents.

6. How the Mise-en-scene represents the
social group
From first glance, the bedroom where it’s predominantly set features pink
walls, bed spread and a fancy en suite. We felt that this would make the
young girl seem as if she were a ‘girly’ girl and quite well off, much like
other thriller characters we have tried to link it to. We felt that by including
this into the seen reinforces that she is a young girl, as if she was still like a
younger generation and by this she reflects the right social group we were
trying to portray.
In the scenes she is wearing just black leggings and a
black jumper with pink writing on the back. We chose to
dress her in this because we thought that it is a good
representation of what a young girl would actually wear.
We figured that some of the clothes belonged to us
therefore they are clothes that we would all wear; and
consequently able to relate to the character.