How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The group that we portrayed within our film opening was a group of typical teenage girls, who happen to be making their way home from school. We feel that this could be compared to the four main girls in the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging because even though that particular film isn't a horror it still portrays a group of teenage girls pretty accurately.

As you can see, this image shows the four main girl characters within a real film as a particular social group. They're all walking home from school, chatting a laughing which is stereotypically what a group of teenage girls would usually do on their way home from school. Which is very similar to the screen grab that I have taken from our film opening, which shows the three main teenage girls walking home, talking and laughing, so in this case we have gone with the slight stereotype of a typical group of teenage girls.

The only difference between these screen grabs is the fact that in the first image the girls are wearing a formal school uniform, whereas our screen grab shows the girls in casual clothes, however we decided to do this to portray that the girls are a little older than normal school students, so in this case they would be sixth form/college students.

We feel that we could compare our main character (the victim) who is played by Becca as the typical teenage victim who would play in films such as Scream, as we feel that the Scream films were a good inspiration for our film opening. We thought this because they are both alone when they are approached by the antagonist and are both taken by surprise when the antagonist appears. Obviously they're both acting as teenage girls and coincidentally they both have blond hair. The only difference would be that Drew Barrymore is playing an American girl in the first Scream film whereas Becca is simply playing the part of a British teen girl.

We thought that we could compare the fact that we had a female character as the murderer to the film 'I spit on your grave' which is also a horror film, even though the story lines are completely different that particular film and our film opening both feature a female playing the role of the antagonist. So even films that have been created in real life are able to challenge the typical conventions of a horror which we have been inspired to do so as well.