How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is a difficult question to answer. Because the charcters are all 17, the stereotypical view of them will be vulnerable teenage girls who perhaps go out clubbing using fake identification and hang around on street corners intimidating the older and younger generations. This is the general media image of teenagers so I thought it was best to put it out there! However, the two characters in our film are not both acting as teenagers. Roxanne, the vulnerable, naive, innocent girl who is just planning her evening without a clue of the possibilities and what awaits her. In contrast to her, there is Amber, who interestingly we never hear speak (probably as her voice would not be what you would expect from a all in black, tresspassing murderer!) who is also a 17 year-old girl but is playing a murderer who is most properably late 20s - early 30s. The costume Amber wears throughout the film creates the atmosphere and ambiance for what kind of person she is and maybe subconciously we feel afraid of her of at least worried for Roxanne. It may make you take away from the experience absolutely nothing or may make you feel slightly paranoid when in a similar position to Roxanne or just generally paranoid as you know this type of story or the situation is occasionally what you hear about happening on the news, in some remote place. It can affect a range of people and I think it represents teenage girls and that they are vulnerable. They like to make themselves look good and go out and dont worry about getting home and at what time when these kind of things are very common and often are partly the cause of this type of tragedy.
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