Evaluation q2-MD

Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?






The social groups that are apparent in our media product are teenage girls that palpably appeal to the teenage social group. However, our aim because of the psychological horror genre was that it would appeal to up to 25 years old making who most regularly out of the population watch horror films.







We decided to choose psychological in contrast to other types of horror such as Slasher because we could manipulate the age restrictions for a wider range of viewers similarly to the Ring. The clear advantage of this is that a wider target audience can be marketed at and consequently the possibility of creating profits increases. Nevertheless, this also heavily relies upon good narrative and manipulation of angles to make the film scary and attract a wide range of audiences.

The opening sequence conforms to the traditional gender roles and shows the girl protagonist as it points to her being weak and vulnerable. This allows the audience to empathize with and allows the social group to correspond with the characters.

This was shown in our opening sequence firstly by the way showing how she was affected by the curse. This was achieved through a time compression combined simultaneously with a POV shot that allowed the audience to feel the suffering of the protagonist.

















The next shot gives a strong impact as the silence is gradually cut by the sound of the twinkle of the music that again reinforces the traditional gender role of the innocent and vulnerable girl. All these parts of the Mise-en-scene including having the socks on the floor Inadvertedly suggest the vulnerability and protection that the protagonist needs. Consequently, this clearly conforms to the psychological horror ideologies that show the need of protection.




Nevertheless, some iconic psychological horrors try and confront these macro and ideological discourses by completely switching them. This can be seen in grudge 2 where the wife kills the man with the pan after being criticized. The silence and is then followed by the tweet of tranquil birds that are used by the director to ironically to provoke darker thoughts and challenge preconception that women are weaker then men.