Evaluation Question 2

Question 2:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Between the two screen shots of Georgia and Brittany Snow the first obvious similarity is that they are both blonde teenage girls, and even though both shots are mid shots of the girls we can see they are in modern casual clothing. Even though the film Brittany Snow stars in (Nelson McCormik and J.S. Cardone's 2008 film 'Prom Night') is an American film and ours is British, we can see that the conventions are similar. The producers for horror films aimed at a young audience usually use young attractive girls as the protagonist character to attract a male audience which widens the audience base as young girls would usually see a horror film with their boyfriends or in a group of friends.


From the chosen shots of the two characters we can see that both of the characters body language and facial expressions are confused and scared and that there is a mysterious silhouette behind them causing this. As for the characters roles in the two films, Georgia and Brittany play very similar parts, where they are both the main characters that the film is based around who in which is the psycho murderer's prime victim. 


The dialogue in the two films are similar in the sense they are both common language that is often associated with and used between young adults and teenagers in both America and England, but the obvious difference being that Prom Night is American dialogue with language or words that you wouldn't find in English films, and Dead Mans Alley is British dialogue with the use of teenage slang usually associated with teenagers in London and Essex where our film is set.


The props we used in our film Dead Mans Alley is a mobile phone, which once again is often associated with teenagers, we had our protagonist character use the mobile phone the whole way through our opening sequence and this played a huge part in the series of events that led up to the climax/main event. 


All of these conventions identifies that particular chosen characters are associated with a certain audience, in our films case as well as Prom Night's a young attractive girl is usually associated with a horror film aimed at a target audience of teenagers/young adults and with our main character being from Essex this would identify with a young audience in the UK.