How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our media product, there is not the usual difference in representation between males and females, as there are no women in our production. This could be read as representing women as unimportant, but this is not the case (we couldn't sensibly find any female actors that we could use). Therefore the emphasis is on the different representations of males in our production. Our antagonist is a very calm, collected and sinister character. He is also portrayed as non-human, with him managing to be everywhere. On the other hand, men are shown to be scared of things that they cant seem to be free of, as is revealed by the protagonist running away from the antagonist.
Overall, it seems that our production reinforces gender roles that men have power, even though our victim is also a male.
Our product introduces the audience to three characters: one antagonist and two victims, all of whom are young Caucasian males. This choice was largely due to practicality, as we all lived close to our locations meaning filming time would be less limited. Our antagonist being a white male reinforces stereotypes of the controlling white man having all the power.
In our media product, there is not the usual difference in representation between males and females, as there are no women in our production. This could be read as representing women as unimportant, but this is not the case (we couldn't sensibly find any female actors that we could use). Therefore the emphasis is on the different representations of males in our production. Our antagonist is a very calm, collected and sinister character. He is also portrayed as non-human, with him managing to be everywhere. On the other hand, men are shown to be scared of things that they cant seem to be free of, as is revealed by the protagonist running away from the antagonist. Overall, it seems that our production reinforces gender roles that men have power, even though our victim is also a male.
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