HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA

PRODUCT REPRESENT

PARTICULAR SOCIAL

GROUPS?Evaluation Question 2

Elizabeth Addis

Our film mainly represents women, as all the characters are female. In some sense it subverts the stereotypes of women as ‘weak’ as the two characters left surviving are both women; showing they must be strong to have survived as long. however as they are

running from the zombies rather than fighting and one character dies, this could be seen as supporting the stereotype as it would be more expected for women to run and men to fight.

Also, in the horror genre, there is always ‘the final girl’ who is left the last character standing at the end of the movie –which has become a stereotype for the representation of gender in horror films.

Final girls in ‘Halloween’ and ‘Scream’

We constructed representation of gender with: Camera angles – high angles show weakness

Fast editing shows the characters are in danger

Sound – girls screaming suggests fear (supports stereotypes of women being scared easily)

Mise-en-scene – carrying weaponry (shows they are strong, able to fight off enemies)

The use of fast cuts and the sound gives the sense that the characters are in danger (screams from the characters could be seen as supporting the stereotype of females being weak/scared), however the music is dramatic but gives the sense that the characters are powerful –and the mise en scene suggests that the characters are due to them carrying weaponry (which would be seen as a more masculine role, therefore subverting the stereotype)

Although we acknowledge the other social groups such as:

age disability/ability ethnicity & class In our 2 minute opening there wasn’t

time to show our representation of all these social groups.

However if the film continued, there would be opportunity to show the representation of most of these groups.