2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

At a superficial level our film represents middle class, we can tell from the clothing that the children are wearing for example the little girl has a coat on showing wealth to be able to afford such clothing. We followed the stereotypical image that you expect of a middle class school girl; both our actor and stereotypical image are similar.

Stereotypical Middle class children:

Our representation of a middle class child:

Throughout our film the stereotypical image of middle class family is portrayed. It is shown through the house itself, the kitchen in particular has all the gadgets and accessories that one would aspire to have without to many to show excessive wealth.

We kept to what most horror films do, use middle class average citizens so it can easily relate to their audience. This is the reason why we have used this stereotypical middle class family is because of the view that the middle class are ‘normal’ everyday people and by using this status family adds a sense of ‘normal’ and reality to the situation – what audiences like to see realism how the scenario could happen to them too.

We also have represented mothers. We have shown mothers also in the stereotypical image that they look after the children, care and love for them. We chose to do this not because of what we believe women’s roles are but to emphasise the fact that somebody is waiting and worried about where they are.

This is an image of a stereotypical mother, showing the care they have for their children:

This our actor resembling the mother role too and also showing the gadgets and wealth in the kitchen too: