Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The two screen shots of Georgia and Brittany Snow have many similarities, they are both blonde teenage girls, and even though both shots are mid shots of the girls we can see they are in modern casual clothing. The film Brittany Snow stars in (Nelson McCormik and J.S. Cardone's 2008 film 'Prom Night') is an American film and our own is British, we can see that the conventions are similar. The producers for horror films aimed at a young audience usually use young attractive girls as the protagonist character this is because it would attract more of a younger audience, it relates to a younger audience and teenagers/young adults would go to the cinema with their partners or friends to see it.


From the chosen shots of the two characters we can see that both of the characters body language and facial expressions are confused and scared and that there is a mysterious silhouette behind them causing this. As for the characters roles in the two films, Georgia and Brittany play very similar parts, where they are both the main characters that the film is based around who in which is the psycho murderer's prime victim.


The dialogue in the two films have their differences in the sense that the American film ‘prom night’ uses more dialogue than our British film, the language that would be used in the film ‘prom night’ would be American orientated, the simplicity of the dialogue used in Dead Mans Alley establishes how young adults/teenagers speak the use of teenage slang usually associated with teenagers in London and Essex where our film is set.


The props we used in our film Dead Mans Alley is a mobile phone, which once again is often associated with teenagers and the technology of today, we had our protagonist character use the mobile phone the whole way through our opening sequence and this played a huge part in the series of events that led up to the climax/main event, and also shows the typical attitude of a teenager.


All of these conventions identifies that particular chosen characters are associated with a certain audience, in our films case as well as Prom Night's a young attractive girl is usually associated with a horror film aimed at a target audience of teenagers/young adults and with our main character being from Essex this would identify with a young audience in the UK.