Our film opening represents different groups in different ways, the main social group represented in our film is the vulnerable, teenage girl who is easily preyed upon by the killer in our film. We made her seem vulnerable by having her in the film as being in her house alone. We also had her in a sate of relaxation as she had just got up and was still wearing her pyjamas, this makes her more defenceless as she is unsuspecting of anything bad happening. The cosutme she wears also connotes her childlike nature which further enhances her susceptibility. This is typical of many horror and thriller genre films, so we continued this stereotype as it has proved effective in the past. Examples of films that use this stereotype are some of the victims in the horror film Tormented and Seven.
The killer in our film is a teenage boy who is undertaking his first murder as revenge for his sisters death. His sister was killed by a group of friends before the time the film is set. The group of friends aren't shown together in the film, but will be killed off by the killer individually one after the next. This group of friend are not dominant in the film but are the key reason as to why the killer has taken actions to commit these murders. So we are representing this teenage group as being bullies and killing a teenage girl of their own age after the bullying gets out of hand. This is the reason our killer is cast as a teenager, which goes against conventions of stereotypical thrillers, however in a slightly similar way to ours the killer in Tormented is the ghost, or spirit of a teenage boy who committed suicide after being bullied by his peers.
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