How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Left of this text is an image of the young protagonist who stars in our horror film. I am going to compare her to 'Drew Barrymore', with the role she plays in 'Scream'.

I think that there are many similarities between these two actors. In our film, the female actor screams, similarly to the way that 'Drew Barrymore' does in the picture to the right. This could show that they may both be a bit fearful. They may also be similar because they are both at home. Laure in our film plays the role of the stereo-typical woman, where in that case she was in the kitchen, and similarly the woman to the right is at home, with her comfortable surroundings. Also, they both show that they can get quite angry at times, as the woman shouts at the man on the other end of the phone, and Laura shouts at Oliver in our film. They are also both protagonists in the films they play in.

Some of the differences however could include that the woman in the picture does not come across as controlling, where as in our horror film, Laura is. Also, the clothing is different, as in ours Laura is wearing a normal dress that you would wear around the house, and Drew Barrymore is wearing what looks to be a normal knitted jumper.

It was quite a hard job for us as a group to decide upon the personalities of our actors. We did not want to make them identical to other characters that have been seen in other films, because then the audience could get  bored, and will all ready know how she is going to act. However, we did not want to make them too different, because we wanted the audience to get a slight feel of how she may or may not act.