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How Does Your Media Product Represent A Particular Social Group?

The media product represents adolescents who feel alienated from society due to pressures to conform. It depicts social outsiders through the main character Megan, who is haunted by supernatural forces and represents psychological problems. Megan, as the "final girl", is a vulnerable protagonist constructed against conventions of antagonists usually being male. The characters are white British around age 17 in a suburban setting familiar to the audience.

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How Does Your Media Product Represent A Particular Social Group?

The media product represents adolescents who feel alienated from society due to pressures to conform. It depicts social outsiders through the main character Megan, who is haunted by supernatural forces and represents psychological problems. Megan, as the "final girl", is a vulnerable protagonist constructed against conventions of antagonists usually being male. The characters are white British around age 17 in a suburban setting familiar to the audience.

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How does your media product represent a particular social group?

Social Groupings
The character of Megan friend. represents adolescents and Megan symbolises those those who are alienated who are out under pressure from society. The genre of to conform to the societies the psychological thriller expectations, through defies the stereotype that approaching a taboo subject all adolescents are we have been able to place confident and sociable. The emphasis on key problems character of Megan in our society are portray represents those who are this through our opening outsiders within society, title sequence. cause by her supernatural

Gender Representation
The main protagonist Megan adheres to the horror characterisation of the final girl seen in such films such as Scream (1996). She is constructed as vulnerable and is being haunted by an alternative being played by males. She is constructed to represent psychological problems and therefore her character is the catalyst for events. A false sense of security is created through the soft tones used in her speech however she is a sinister character who leads to the demise of Megans mental state.

Lauren as the antagonist defies the convention that antagonists are usually

Age and Ethnicity


The characters We challenged the represent white British convention that around the age of 17. children are shown as the protagonist by using an adolescent However she develops the role of the final girl which is a key element used in many horror (Psycho).

Setting
A suburban setting is used to create a realistic environment in which the audience can relate and respond to.

At the end the character of Megan is in a bathroom, portraying the conventions of isolation. The bathroom has been seen in many prominent films such as Psycho therefore we choose it as one of the features which adhered to the horror ideologies.

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