AS Evaluation- Question 2

AS Evaluation
Antonia Georgiou




2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?
 In our media product I would say we challenged our stereotype as usually in a horror movie you expect the main character to be young and gullible towards everything. Even though the character in our movie was young, she was a mother and you don't usually expect a mother to be in this kind of movie so we went against our stereotype.

Representation of the mother: The representation of the mother is usually very similar in all horror movies. The representation is usually the mother being sweet and caring for her children and always very protective over her children. Representations of a mother are like this in horror films as when the audience see a caring mother they automatically assume that something is going to happen to the family. 

Mothers also have a representation of feeling safe in their homes as they are in their own environment and at their own comfort. When the horror film goes on all of these representations always change as the mother will feel threatened in their house and unsafe and also be worried if their child has gone missing or playing up.

Some examples of real media product mother characters is "Elisabeth Sue" who plays  "Sarah" in "The House at the End of the Street" and also "Lili Taylor" who plays the mother in "The Conjuring". Both of these mothers in their horror films are over protective and caring for their kids. These mothers in  real media products are also known as the typical mother and doing the following tasks...

• Cleaning. 
• Cooking. 
• Looking after children. 
• Taking care of the household. 

The mother in our media product also does the tasks above and we have shown this by starting our opening scene in the kitchen of the mother cooking and cleaning. 

Representation of the child: A child in horror films usually has the representation of being sweet and innocent towards the start of the film which always gives the audience a sense that the child will eventually change and become possessed or evil. This then goes back to the representation of the mother being worried and caring for their child like the mother in our film is caring for the child.

Some examples of real media product child characters would be "Linda Blair" who played the young girl in the "Exorcist" which was one of the scariest horror films of its time(1973) and "Chucky" who was also another child character in a major horror film. All of these characters start of sweet and innocent and turn out to be evil or get possessed throughout the movie which is how our film works.

As you can see from the screenshot above she is dressed casually and in clothes a mother would be wearing around the house. We went against a  typical stereotype as everyone would of predicted a young clueless girl to be in our media product so by changing the stereotype it would shock the people by seeing different.