Evaluation Question 2. How Does Your Media Product Represent Other Social Groups?
We have the white, female, presumably heterosexual, upper-middle class and the black, male, heterosexual, upper working class aggressor. This was perhaps slightly stereotypical of a male minority attacking a white female but we didn't consider such a problem at the time. The little girl dressed in pink her girly presents and clothes and her pink birthday cake is a very common stereotype of the middle class, young female like Ophelia form pans labyrinth.The image of a woman being vulnerable and alone is very common in horror if slightly stereotypical. However the plot of our film dictates that the girls spirit or whatever starts its own murdering spree which challenges the stereotypes we have followed. The female revenge flick was very common in the late seventies with films like I Spit On Your Grave and Mrs. 45, these follow a similar format to our film. That being starting of very stereotypical having a man doing something unspeakable to a woman and then she becomes stronger begins to take revenge and gradually goes insane. However we brought in a supernatural element of the girl coming back form the dead but the reversal of the roles of victim and villain (even if we couldn't do it in 2 minutes) this only not challenges convention of the revenge exploitation film but also the stereotypes of male villain and female victim.
We have the white, female, presumably heterosexual, upper-middle class and the black, male, heterosexual, upper working class aggressor. This was perhaps slightly stereotypical of a male minority attacking a white female but we didn't consider such a problem at the time. The little girl dressed in pink her girly presents and clothes and her pink birthday cake is a very common stereotype of the middle class, young female like Ophelia form pans labyrinth.The image of a woman being vulnerable and alone is very common in horror if slightly stereotypical. However the plot of our film dictates that the girls spirit or whatever starts its own murdering spree which challenges the stereotypes we have followed. The female revenge flick was very common in the late seventies with films like I Spit On Your Grave and Mrs. 45, these follow a similar format to our film. That being starting of very stereotypical having a man doing something unspeakable to a woman and then she becomes stronger begins to take revenge and gradually goes insane. However we brought in a supernatural element of the girl coming back form the dead but the reversal of the roles of victim and villain (even if we couldn't do it in 2 minutes) this only not challenges convention of the revenge exploitation film but also the stereotypes of male villain and female victim.
However Aiden's all-black clad psycho is closer (as i have already said) to Micheal Myers or Dracula. As a purely evil male aggressor. We tried to male this more apparent by dressing him all in black and concealing his face to generate a feeling of dread in the audience (hopefully). Both of these roles are very tried and tested in not just in horror but all kinds of films. They each represent different ends of the spectrum with innocence and evil (respectively) and are well suited to the roles of victim and villain.
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