Hide and Seek trailer - How does your media product represent particular social groups? 2

In this film, the female character is the threat. As she is only of a young age of about 8/9 it is quite unusual that she is the threat especially as the victim is her father, who is in his late 40's. This, therefore goes against gender and age stereotypes because males of an older age should be more of a threat then a young girl.

These are represented because the girls dialogue is quite threatening especially when she says 'I'm drawing you... dying.' and the males dialogue is a lot more scared like when he calls the girls name.

It is a majority white cast which we will consider for our film.

2. PLANNING

 This is a test shot of out choice of Actor. Matt. He plays our victim/ He challenges conventions because it is stereotypically a female who is the victim. We thought this would be a interesting twist to our film and would suit our male target audience because they can engage with the victim as they are of a similar age. (15+)

 This is one sheet from our story board. This shows that we use the conventions of a ghost film by habing the ghost 'hinted at, rather then shown straight away' (Shot 1 in the picture above) which builds up the tension in the audience as they can only see as much as the victim can which means that they are right there in the action.

From the certificates of other 'ghost' sub genre horror films like The Grudge, The Ring etc they all have the certificate of 15 and the audiences which have watched them films are males around the age of 18. So as a group we tried to appeal to those of a similar age range as they would be most likely to watch out film.

3. CONSTRUCTION AND FEEDBACK

This is a part of our film which establishes the social group of our film as you can tell from the age of the actors it is for teenages and young adults. 

We used both genders so that it appeals to both genders like 'Gothika'

The race we used was white dominated in the opening which is similar to 'Hide and Seek' trailor above.