HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?
The costumes we used in our OTS represent different types of characters because we have doctors wearing lab coats and stethoscopes which are black to represent mystery. In our OTS we had to represent doctors as mature and sensible people, we did this by making the doctors have posh accents and then making them walk like sophisticated people. we also made sure they did everything in an organised manner just like doctors are expected to. The stereotype of blonde females not being clever is represented in our OTS by one of the actors having blonde hair and then being kidnapped because she was found walking alone in the forest. We represented the blonde female stereotype because of the inspiration we got from scream. In most horrors the blonde female character is seen as the one who doesn't have common sense which is why we have our character captured in a forest when she's found walking around by herself.
This is Halloween 2 which was a film that influenced us into making Charlotte our victim because they made Michael Myers kill the blonde female character first as she is in the hospital at night time and she is almost on her own. This was an influence on how we wanted to represent this particular social group because every one predicts that the blonde female is going to be the one who's is killed first because they are supposedly stupid and don't have much common sense .
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