2. There are 7 types of representation and we chose the
representation gender to try to focus on. We used
stereotypes in our film as the main actors are all teenagers
and so conform to the idea of young people going missing
and being in danger in horror movies, also the main
character is a girl and as the girl goes missing, it supports
this. Our film subverts stereotypes due to the teenagers in
the woods being in a media group which is original and
usually wouldn’t happen in a stereotypical horror film. Our
film also subverts as the speech isn’t vast due to the film
mainly being based around the teenagers being followed
and so the music occurs more often. We represent women
as weak and vulnerable as the girl is the character that gets
killed and also the other main character is a girl and this
usually happens in horror as the girl with intelligence
survives until the end.
Use or subversion of
stereotypes
3. As parents don’t appear it supports the
stereotype as typically there are a bunch of
teenagers out on their own in an isolated place
who think they’re stronger than what they are.
We would have challenged stereotypes more in
the rest of the film by having the girl character
figure out who the killer is and her being the one
who escapes, the boy being the one who gets
killed.
Continued
4. The camera angles in our film support
stereotypes as the match on actions with the
phone and the shoes which make the film fit
together more naturally, creating a sense of
reality, making the genre seem like a real
narrative.
Other camera angles that support the film are the
higher angle shot, making the people below look
weaker and the killer have more power which is
natural in horror films. But also
Camera angles
5. We used different ways of editing it together which would imply
different things about different social groups. Our continuity was
slow paced to show the danger and risk that is happening to the
character. We put together a tinted screen over the killers point of
view, making the camera blurred and shaken to imply that
there’s something bad going to happen and the person who’s
watching has bad intentions.
We used a jump cut at the beginning between the newsreader
and the teenagers match on action with the shoes to show the
movement of time and also highlighting it’s a different scene and
something else is happening.
Editing
6. The ages of the teenage characters are 17 which shows they’re more likely
to go places where they’re not supposed to and go missing due to being in
isolated places. It would be strange to see a couple of adults and one of
them go missing as they wouldn’t be expected to be in this location.
The news readers age is around 40 as the typical news reader is presented
as mature and knowledgeable due to their experienced age. You wouldn’t
expect to see a young male new reader as this isn’t the typical job for them.
The gender of the main character is a girl, showing she’s more likely to go
missing due to being stereotypically seen as innocent and vulnerable/weak.
This is what you normally see but usually in horrors the stronger girl
survives until last in horrors.
Social groups we didn’t come across was disability, we did however find
that all the characters had ability and were able to have knowledge not to
go off alone except one, showing it’s what you normally see.
Social groups
7. The lighting in the film is an average colour for that time of
day, we wanted the lighting to be darker than usual as it
wouldn’t look as spooky if it was broad daylight and a
killer was on the loose. Whereas the darker lighting fits
better to the situation.
Our lighting was changed to a red tint to make it more
visual and fit the fact a crazy person was watching the
teenagers.
Expressionism
8. The typography is supporting the stereotypes as the
colours and font style stand out against the darker
colours, which is similar to other horror/thrillers in style
as they tend to use these to make the audience feel as
though the film is scary and strange.
Personally I feel we subvert the stereotypes of the typical
title as most titles don’t flash on the middle of the screen
under the characters and usually appear at the start in a
title sequence which is then followed by the start of the
film, this could show our film is quite strange and not the
usual horror as you wouldn’t typically get the killers
point of view and wouldn’t know who the killer was until
the end, which is quite an inspiration from Peep Show.
Typography
