How my media product represents particular social groups:
My main character, being the villain in our horror film opening but also youngest character, Carolina is quite a deceiving representative of the children social group that she fits into. Children are often represented as young, innocent and naive characters hence the reason why we chose neutral white coloured clothes to put her in as it conforms to the stereotype of children having this virtuous side to them.
My main character, being the villain in our horror film opening but also youngest character, Carolina is quite a deceiving representative of the children social group that she fits into. Children are often represented as young, innocent and naive characters hence the reason why we chose neutral white coloured clothes to put her in as it conforms to the stereotype of children having this virtuous side to them.
However, this was a deceptive chose we decided to make as she is subtly but clearly the evil protagonist in our film, making our audience get the feeling that they want to sympathize with her but not for long before we are introduced to her harmful capabilities. We wanted our audience to feel uncomfortable with the representation of our protagonist.
In comparison to Carolina, the character Samara Morgan from 'The Ring' is the look we wanted to try and achieve with Carolina. The protagonist from 'The Ring' had the same affect on their audience that we wanted to impose on our audience. The protagonist clearly being very young and wearing costume that connotes an uneasy feeling as it implies the opposite of the what/who the character really is.
Because of this, both protagonists represent their social group (children) in a negative way.
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