How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our horror/thriller hybrid film, Fascination, our characters being two female victims and a male villain, are more of a genre stereotype, (Propp's character types) than a social stereotype. The typical genre portrayal of defenceless, young females has a very relevant place in modern society, despite it being a cliched character type. It is feasible for the roles to be reversed, and for males to be the victims in the film, yet it is more conventional for males to be the killers, due to real life society and UK crime statistics.
Female insecurity in modern day society is an ever increasing issue, with more attacks on young girls on Britain's streets. In our film, the two girls at first seem to be defenceless victims, however, projected forward, by the end, they actually aid the authorities when catching the obsessive kidnapper, thus twisting this concept on its head. The resilience of the two girls in the film is hopefully something young girls in society can take from our film. The film, by tackling issues of female safety, fits in with growing women's right pressure groups such as Reclaim The Night etc who would be able to use our film as an example of combating women's safety on Britain's streets.
Although our film appears as though it was centred around these social issues, it was perhaps a coincidence, and more of a genre convention, that we chose the two young, defenceless females. In most thriller films it's rare for it to be produced to make a political statement about these types of issues, or for them to be reflected through character portrayals.
In our horror/thriller hybrid film, Fascination, our characters being two female victims and a male villain, are more of a genre stereotype, (Propp's character types) than a social stereotype. The typical genre portrayal of defenceless, young females has a very relevant place in modern society, despite it being a cliched character type. It is feasible for the roles to be reversed, and for males to be the victims in the film, yet it is more conventional for males to be the killers, due to real life society and UK crime statistics.
Female insecurity in modern day society is an ever increasing issue, with more attacks on young girls on Britain's streets. In our film, the two girls at first seem to be defenceless victims, however, projected forward, by the end, they actually aid the authorities when catching the obsessive kidnapper, thus twisting this concept on its head. The resilience of the two girls in the film is hopefully something young girls in society can take from our film. The film, by tackling issues of female safety, fits in with growing women's right pressure groups such as Reclaim The Night etc who would be able to use our film as an example of combating women's safety on Britain's streets.
Although our film appears as though it was centred around these social issues, it was perhaps a coincidence, and more of a genre convention, that we chose the two young, defenceless females. In most thriller films it's rare for it to be produced to make a political statement about these types of issues, or for them to be reflected through character portrayals.
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