This document summarizes how a media project represents teenagers and young adults as a social group through its main character, Amber. It describes Amber as rebellious and wild, unlike typical shy horror characters. Amber's costume, makeup, facial expressions, and body language are described as portraying her daring and fearless personality. The locations and camera shots are chosen to enhance Amber's rebellious nature and show her curiosity leading to danger. The music also starts calm but builds tension to represent Amber's interests diverging from her friend's and her vulnerability increasing as she explores alone.

1. Question 2:
How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
Emma Marshall
Annamaria Noto
Bridget Cardenas Pazmino

2. What social group does your main
character represent and why?
Our main character, Amber, represents teenagers
and young adults who are rebellious and wild.
We chose this social group because typical
supernatural horror films tend to focus on shy and
innocent characters as their victims and their main
characters so we wanted to be different and
introduce a different social group into the
supernatural horror subgenre.

3. How did you represent your character
through mes-en-scene?
• Costumes, props, make up
The leather jacket
Amber wears is
an effective way
or portraying her
rebellious nature
and character.
The red dress is signifies
danger – Amber ultimately
is in danger, but the
audience could also
question whether she’s
going to bring danger,
either to herself or perhaps
to her friend.
The prop of the mobile
phone highlights the fact
that Amber and her
friend are lost as the
phone screen shows a
map. It also indicates that
the time era is modern.
Both Amber and her friend’s
make up is simple – it’s the
typical ‘everyday’ make up for
that of a teenage girl
(mascara, light eyeliner and a
touch of concealer), implying
that they didn’t expect to find
themselves at a graveyard. It
tells the audience they had
planned for an ordinary day so
the make up generally
emphasises the fact that the
situation they find themselves
in wasn’t planned for.
The red eye contacts were used
to suggest and tell the audience
about Amber’s possession. During
the sequence her eyes are her
original blue but after the implied
attack, she has become
possessed with red eyes.

4. • Facial expressions & body language
Amber’s confident walk
towards the tree
emphasises her
rebellious side and
reinforced the fact she
is not scared.
The friend’s facial
expression suggests she
might be feeling
vulnerable in this
location and she is
clearly scared and
distressed.
Amber’s facial expression
when she first sees the
location suggests
excitement and bravery.
She seems intrigued to
explore the graveyard and
happy with what she sees.
The friend’s body language
seems frustrated with Amber
when Amber doesn’t want to
leave. Her fear is confirmed
when we see the friend
backing away slowly and then
running.
Amber’s body language and hand
gestures emphasise her excitement
and love of the graveyard. Especially
when she brushes her friend off. It
comes across as if she doesn’t care
about her friend anymore and she
just wants to explore.
Amber’s facial expression
once she opens her eyes at
the end really emphasises her
possession. Here eyes are
widened more than usual and
she seems emotionless.

5. • Locations
• We filmed on a grassy area in the graveyard to
convey that Amber’s rebellious character
resulted in the wrong decision of going into the
graveyard alone. This is evident as she is no
longer where the graves are, but in a more
isolated area.
• This location was used to enhance the eerie
atmosphere through the idea of an abandoned
area.
• We filmed near the entrance of the
graveyard to highlight that Amber’s
rebelliousness leads to curiousness.
• This location of the graveyard gives
connotations of death and ghosts etc.,
which initiates a sense of foreboding. This
reflects that Amber refuses to think of the
consequences, which reinforces that she is a
stereotypical rebellious teenager.
Location 2: Entrance of the graveyard

6. Location 3: Near the tree in the graveyard
• Also, we filmed near the tree in
graveyard to emphasise that Amber
was rebellious and appeared fearless
(as it was an isolated area which gives
connotations of potential danger).
• Furthermore, this portrays that she
was curious of the ‘Mystery Creature’
watching her from tree.

7. How did you represent your character
through the camera shots and editing?
• In the first scene there is a close up shot of Amber
showing that something has happened to her as she is
on the floor. There is then a dissolve transition into the
movie to show a flashback.
• The phone used in the overhead shot indicates that she
is young/ modern, and shows the audience she is lost.
• The close up facial expressions show Amber’s
eagerness and excitement, representing her as quite
rebellious and wild.
• The fast paced editing of the cross cutting emphasises
her determination but also highlights her vulnerability.

8. How did you represent your character
through the music?
• At the beginning the music represents Amber as someone
who is probably quite close to her friend as they are
walking together and it is calm.
• However, adding the non-diegetic music further on built up
the tension for the following scenes and shows Amber is
more interested in the graveyard than her friend.
• As soon as Amber is alone the music changes dramatically,
highlighting the danger, but also her rebelliousness.
• As she gets closer to the tree the non diegetic intensifies,
along with the diegetic sound effects of the heartbeat and
the footsteps on the ground.
• The dramatic non-diegetic sound used at the very end
when Amber opens her eyes is used to scare the audience
and indicated her possession.