Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Maddie is the main protagonist's in our film opening as she's the only character in our media product. She is a white, middle class teenage girl. We show that she is a middle class by showing a lot of her house in the opening including her bedroom, her brothers bedroom, parents bedroom, lounge and kitchen and we also showed a shot from outside.She is a stereotypical popular teenager, who likes to be out with her friends and shes a regular user on her phone as we can see she has an up to date phone.

We tried to make her show a range of emotions across the opening sequence to try and connect the audience with whats shes going through.

We discovered that the character played is a lot similar to the character 'Cher' in the film 'clueless' and this is the character we wanted to portray. She is shown as a very popular and is depicted as a narrow-minded, extravagant teenager. Cher also wears vivid colour and extremity to show her unique characteristic which is exactly what we tried to portray with Maddie. We don't actually show Maddie using this characteristic in the opening but if the film we to continue we would. The only difference that the two characters differ from is that Maddie's family have more of a middle class house and Cher's family are considerably richer.



We also found another character that's similar to my character. Amanda Seyfried plays 'Jill' in the film 'Gone' which is actually very similar to our film. It involves her waking up one day to find her sister missing. The character Amanda play is similar in the terms that shes confused and extremely worried about where her sister has gone. She portrays her emotions just as we would have liked are character to show hers; scared, angry, confused.



From looking back at our media product, I've noticed we focused mostly on the clothes and props. For instance, in most thrillers the main character comes across sometimes as quite dark and mysterious but we portray Maddie as completely different.

 The Hollister hoodie and jeans show the audience that shes a typical teenager and nothing out of the ordinary. The fact that she shops in 'Hollister' depicts that she shops in a popular shops and its a shop that most teenagers shop in these days. Focusing on the props, we made sure that her phone was shown in the opening scene. We did this to show for one that she owns a expensive phone and two that this represent a young, sociable teenager.

Thriller films interest young adults as they find the plots interesting, they like feeling the suspense and mystery. Our target audience is a 15, this includes people who are about 5-17 years old. We chose this age because we felt that because the main character is 16 we thought this would help connect with our target audience as they would near enough the same age. It quite easy from the beginning of the film to tell what age Maddie is, the bedroom is a main contributor to this. You can see its really girly and a typical teenage bedroom with the pink wall, curtains and typical girly items. Thrillers appeal to both males and females.

Males are interested in Thrillers due to the action as they like to see something that gets their heart beating, and females are usually attracted to Thrillers because they like to watch something that plays questions in their head, wondering what will happen next.