HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?By Amy Barrett

HOW I REPRESENT GENDER IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT?

One way that I represented Gender in my Horror Opening Title Sequence is by the main character which appears during the titles.

This represents and even develops and challenges the stereotypes of horror in social groups such as gender.

This is due to how I use the main character, a woman, as the victim’s friend and the new victim.This develops the conventions as the victim/ main character as innocent and vulnerable due to the connotations of the gender along with how it can lead her being the next victim as her weakly being a female.Yet, newer and more relevant stereotypes towards the females in this including how the main character is powerful and more strong, powerful characters who figure out what is happening hence why the main character/ female hero is finding the victim/ the helper as part of Propp’s theory.

The female gender is more prominent in my OTS than the males which is a challenged stereotypes.

HOW I REPRESENT GENDER IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT? Another way that I represented Gender in my

Horror Opening Title Sequence is by the less prominent male character which isn’t shown yet.

This represents and even develops stereotypes of horror in social groups such as gender and even overall gender of males.

This is due to how I use mise-en-scene to portray a male character as well as the conventions and the ideology behind the mise-en-scene from the locations to prop from the tool box and the tool themselves being an influence and to the isolated garage as the location as well as the bit of the clothing found to further represent the male gender with danger.This develops the conventions with the male being classified as the villain and the overall evil behind the horror films.Yet, the male stereotypes of being heroes or the saviours from my media product shows no sign of heroes or proper male characters. This is a subverted stereotype of the social groups by showing no male influence and allowing the female character to be the hero of my media product.

HOW I REPRESENT GENDER IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT? Another way that I represented Gender in my Horror

Opening Title Sequence is by the stereotypes within gender are subverted in my media product.

One subverted stereotype is the idea of a male as a lone hero. This is subverted in my media product to show the female as a hero.

This is due to how I use a character willingly facing the villain by herself along with how the character is wearing black and dull clothing, representing the authority and power as well as independence. That overall represents the character with mise-en-scene. Another way that a female hero is presented and subverts the stereotype is by the fact that she is the main focus and character by more screen time, proving she is more significant than the villain, of the media product that impacts on the audience.

Another subverted stereotype is the idea of a female being shown as innocent and vulnerable. This is subverted in my media product to show the female as strong and powerful.

This is due to how the use of one character within the whole OTS that shows her independence and her power despite that she is exposed to the villain/ antagonist. Along with how the female character can be presented with darker colours as the mise-en-scene to connotate that she is also powerful and denotes a physical and mental strength of the female character despite the stereotypes however the grey can show the intellect. Another reason why I represent the women as invulnerable with how it could react to the use of the items within the OTS and that they don’t need to hide away from the real world.

HOW I REPRESENT AGE IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT?

One way that I represented Age in my Horror Opening Title Sequence is by the types of characters that I use within my media product of teenagers and adults.

The representation of age in horror is usually using children to portray innocence and able to be more social anxiety leading to horror to come across as sinister. False premise and binary opposites allow the use of children to be more horrific in other horror films. Whereas there is no representations of elderly people in the horror due to no significance. Nevertheless most of the ages of the characters are all ranged from teenagers to adults with a significant impact on the films by their naivety or their motives against the teenagers.

This represents and even develops the stereotypes of horror in social groups such as gender.

I have developed representation and the stereotype of age in the horror films by using characters of the age groups from the child, the teenager and an adult within my media product. These already develops the representation despite how I haven't used a range of age groups which shows the insignificance of the younger or older generations within my media product.

The most prominent age groups within my media product of the OTS is teenagers to adults or 18-50 which can reflect in my ideal target audience.

HOW I REPRESENT AGE IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT? Another way that I represented Age in my Horror

Opening Title Sequence is by the types of characters that I use within my media product of teenagers and adults.

Another representation that I evolved the view of the social group of the age is that the victims are mostly the teenagers, portrayed by the mise-en-scene used from scarves to the clothing, and the killer/ the villain is the older adults who have motifs against the younger generations or older adults is more likely to become mad/insane over an incident to do with the motifs.

This could also represent and develop the ideas of age within the horror genre and link back to Propp’s theory of the villain.

This can be developed by the mise-en-scenes associated with the job to do with experience and skill, from the toolbox and the range of tools. But also the age can be expressed by the dust or dirt within the tools.

Also another developed age stereotype of the “old man that has a tragic backstory that leads to an event” by how the man has become this villain that eventually is the pointline except the only subverted stereotype within my OTS for age is that the man is unknown and has no identity except from the job and the location,

HOW I REPRESENT AGE IN MY MEDIA PRODUCT? Another way that I represented Age in my Horror

Opening Title Sequence is by the types of characters that I use within my media product of children.

This is a stereotype that is developed to create an effect of Horror like other horror films by their innocence and also more sinister.

This could be a prevalence in children within horror and is a significant stereotype of the genre, therefore showing the social group can be represented.

This can be developed by how the hand of presumably a child has a lot of representations of horror to produce the responses such as blood and the shock element of appearing out of no where.

Through the clip of the child’s hand, it shows the playfulness of a child as well as the fact that it can be the norms of society by not expecting the shock of a child.

Also the ideology of children not usually scary can be subverted with the use of them in horror films and can be perceived as evil or supernaturally dangerous compared to the villain.