Our media product represents young working class adults. This is shown through the main character Craig McDermott, who applies to be a caretaker at a school. He has an ordinary, unfancy costume. The film also targets working class teenagers as its audience. It aims to make the story realistic by having the location be a school that the audience could imagine themselves in. The characters Craig and the ones in similar films like The Shining and The Lovely Bones are portrayed as working class through their jobs and costumes.

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

2. Representation
• Our media product represents young adults from the
working class
• this representation is achieved by the job offer the
main character is going for: caretaker of a school
• The costume looks ordinary and not fancy
• The film “The Shining” is an example of a real media
product that represents the same social group
• the main character is taking care of a hotel and turns
into a killer
• He is dressed in a similar way and has
the same profession

3. Audience
• Our target audience is the working class and
teenagers
• Our media product targets men and woman
• As the location is a school, the film will become
more realistic and the audience will very easily be
able to put themselves in the position of the
victim or even the killer
• Our target audience is of course
everybody who likes psycho
thrillers

4. Similar characters
Craig McDermott* is a young man who
is applying at a school to be a caretaker.
But he has a tragic past in which his
wife and daughter are killed. This
effected his mental state and he has
become a psychopath. The head
teacher becomes his first victim at his
interview and gets shot by Craig for
having mentioned Craig's family.
George Harvey is a character in the film
“The Lovely Bones” . He is a serial killer
of young girls, he murders Susie and
goes unpunished, even though the
Salmons come to suspect him. He
eventually leaves Norristown to escape
the investigation, and continues killing
as he moves across the country. Years
later, he dies in an accident while
stalking a potential victim.
*our character
Jack Torrance is portrayed in a less
sympathetic manner in the 1980 film.
In the novel, Jack is a tragic hero
whose shortcomings lead to his
defeat, while the film implies that he
is insane from the start. It also leaves
out his traumatic childhood.
The film's first major deviation from
the source material occurs when Jack
attacks Halloran. Instead of merely
injuring him with the mallet, Jack kills
him by stabbing him in the heart with
an axe.
All three characters are from the working class. There costumes, language and posture are indicators to the
audience that its about this particular social group and the conventions that come with it for example not highly
educated.