1. QUESTION 2- HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?

2. ANTAGONIST
• I played the role of the antagonist in the opening sequence, she
wanted to inflict pain to her body. This represents some social
groups within society today because a lot of people cut their
wrists they do this because normally they are under a lot of
pressure and are stressed, either school work, family problems
or things much worse.
• A lot of people that do it have mental illnesses but in this
situation she does it because she forgets about the pain mentally
and only feels the physical pain this is a short block of what still
haunts her.
• Clothing links in with this because she always has her arms
covered, therefore the audience may assume this. An example of
this sort of behaviour is in another film called ‘Orphan’, she also
hides her scars by having ribbons round her neck and wrists
she does this so none of her foster parents known. We used this
in our opening sequence because all of this relates to the type of
genre, psychological horror it is all about her mysterious
behaviour.

3. STEREOTYPE
• The fact that she is a girl is a weakness, as girls are
known to be more vulnerable than men and
stereotypically using a girl is slightly better than using a
boy in this scenario as the audience will be more aware
of cases including girls. In the film ‘Orphan’ this is also
used, the girl makes the parents feel sorry for her. She
tries to make the father turn against the mother but the
father doesn’t see it. We chose to use a girl because it
creates more emotion.

4. MAKE-UP
• The make-up me and Charlotte chose to do on me was make
my eyes look darker, this could suggest to the audience that I
am fatigued and it also shows how the character is negligent
about her looks. We chose to do this because it would make
slightly more sense to the audience if they don’t understand
the story line, as they can immediately tell that something is
wrong.
• The fact that the characters hair was up shows that she is
trying to make out she is ‘normal’ to other people. This
relates to the society today because people don’t want to be
seen as weird or strange, they just want to fit in with others.
Although she has bags under her eyes she is trying to show
her normality in other ways.
• The bottom image is taken from the opening sequence and
the top from the film called ‘Orphan’.