The document discusses the representation of social groups in the film's opening scene. It introduces two main characters - Molly, a middle-class teenage girl, and Victoria, a bruised girl dressed in black who bullied Molly before her death. Cinematography and lighting are used to portray Victoria as mysterious and having a negative presence. While the characters typically found in horror films are male and female, this film challenges conventions by having both main characters as female. It also sends a message about the consequences of bullying by showing Victoria haunting those who bullied her.

1. How Does Your Product
Represent Particular
Social Groups?

2. What characters have you involved in your film
and what social groups do they represent?
• The female character in
our opening represents a
young teenage girl, of the
middle class. She is
coming home from
college when she starts
getting suspicious as she
is home alone but gets a
feeling she’s not alone.
• The girl is relatable to many of our age
group as would have experienced being
home alone and walking home by
themselves.

3. • We reject the conventions of a real
films in the sense that both our
characters are female. It is
stereotypical to have a female
character as the vulnerable victim
and a male character as the strong
villain. However a film this that
reject this convention also, is Case
39, where both characters are
female.
• However in our opening this character isn’t the
protagonist, she is through out the rest of the
film, as she goes on to haunt other people,
which bullied her at school before her death.
We can immediately see in the opening that
she is the ‘villain’ of the two characters as
‘Molly’ is in typical teenage middle class
clothing and ‘Victoria’ is in all black with
bruised makeup on her face. We purposely
made it difficult to see her face, to indicate to
the audience that she had a very negative
presence.

4. How have you constructed ideas about your
character through mise en scene, camerawork,
editing and sound.
• To emphasise the fact that ‘Molly’ was
becoming more and more scared throughout
the opening we made sure to include a variety
of close ups to clearly see her face to show the
audience how she is feeling. • We always kept ‘Victoria’ hidden or only seen
discretely as we didn’t want to give away too
much of her character. We kept her in dark
clothes and messy hair, making it difficult to
make out any facial expression and keep her
character mysterious .
• We used lighting to show that ‘Victoria’ had a
negative presence as whenever she was about
to appear there would be a bright flash of light
• We used props in the kitchen
such as the kettle to show that
it’s a regular occurrence that
she if often home alone and is
independent as turning the
kettle on is the first thing she
does after putting the
newspaper on the side

5. To what extent are your character
representations typical of your film’s genre?
• Our characters, in our opening were not
typical of our film genre. Stereotypically
the protagonists are a male and a
female.
• However in our film influences, such as ‘The Ring’,
they also don’t obey the typical characterisation as
the two protagonists are female also. However the
two characters have a larger age gap, more like a
mother and daughter figure, rather than the same
age like in our opening.

6. In what ways do your representations
challenge social stereotypes?
• There is a message within our opening that ‘what goes
around comes around’ this is because ‘Molly’ bullied a girl
at school and was recently found dead. This is very relevant
as the “the female suicide rate in England is at its highest
since 2005”. As well as suicide bullying in school is also a
key subject of the moment. “1.5 million young people (50%)
have been bullied within the past year”. This film raises
awareness to the subject of bullying and its possible,
however has been portrays in a supernatural way.
• In a way the supernatural girl is a social stereotype as
statistics show that people that are bullied are more likely
to then go on to bully others, however in our case she
‘haunts’ people.
• Molly is a stereotypical middle
class teenager walking home from
college and enjoys texting her
friends and drinking tea.