Evaluation - Question 2

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

For our movie the social group we aimed for in the audience was 15-25+. Our characters we're aged between 20-25 years of age so we had to dress them accordingly; but how does a 20-25 year old dress? Everyone is different but for our protagonist Charles, a man who works 9 to 5 seven days a week he's pretty plain. You usually find in pyscological horror films that the murderer or suspects are always the quiet 'ordinary' ones due to their eerie, unsettled, too quiet image. 

We got our look for Charles through personally interpretation and influence from the protagonist in The Number 23, Walter Sparrow.

Our costume designer was to base it on your average man. Most 20-25 year old working men dress casual throughout their daily lives. Both characters from both movies took this on board and it gives the audience knowledge and a sense of suspicion not to trust the 'normal' man merging with the conventions of a real horror media product.

A simple Google search for '25 year old male' brings up a wide array of men in very casual, comfy, office suit/shirts. I believe our character fits into this social group very well and portrays the easy hidden identities of murderers and psychos through the ordinary man.

As for the young female we originally wanted her very made up, seductive, flirtatious looking. Due to actors dropping out due to unforeseen circumstances and limited time we had to settle for something more casual and innocent.

Farhath played the young woman dressed in a green blouse, smart black jeans and black flats. For a 20 year old woman this is very common, being 19 myself I know that most women these days opt for comfort over style and more often than not mix the two together to get a nice in between  I feel Farhath's outfit choice was appropriate  although not fitting with the typical 'home wrecker' image of a young woman she is quite the opposite and opens the audiences eyes to the innocence and different tastes of men. 20 is a young age and most 20 year olds are students and can't afford designer clothes, bags, shoes and high end make up. Our choice to put the young woman in more casual, 'natural' clothes was to uncover the fact that not all social groups in this age gap are the same as you'd expect in the movies - I feel this adds originality and a sort of social shock factor to our media product.