HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?
The use of different social groups within out OTS is somehting we could improve on if given the task again as our main focus in terms of social groups is females. We have since learnt from this that it is important to inclue a rage of different social groups within a film, so that all members of the audience can connect to the characters. We chose to use the power of suggestion and 'show dont tell' when portraying the killer, however when relating this to social class, this could have been improved. Dispite this, when considering a killer, its common that connotations of a man come into a persons head due to the stereotype that they are the more dominant and powerful gender, where as females are often represented as week and vunerable in the media and films. We chose to focus more on the vunrability of the female character in out OTS, which fit with typical horror conventions set by Carol Clover. To emphasise the girls lack of power and weekness in out OTS, we use various torture scenes, in which she is tied up to a chair to show she is trapped by the killer, we also used a shot which showed the girls hair being viciously pulled back.