1. How Does Your Media Product
Represent Particular Social
Groups?
Will Ellis
2. Age
Both of the characters cast in my film are teenagers.
In Films:
Jake (The character played by Jack,) is a typical teenager, dressed in
black.
Compared to other horror films, Jack is a typical main, teenage
protagonist, as his nervousness and uneasiness creates that same
feeling in a viewer.
On the other hand, Jack is not represented as a hero, only a victim.
Which countertypes how main teenage protagonists are represented in
horror films.
In Real Life:
In real life teenagers are presumed to be dangerous/unpredictable, and
I think the character of Jake doesn’t fit these stereotypes.
Also, the lazy and rebellious stereotypes are not shown in the opening
two minutes of Delirium. Instead, the character of Jake is active.
However, teenagers are also thought to be naive and vulnerable, and
the character of Jake fits that stereotype.
The stereotype of a teenager caring about fashion is also challenged in
my representation, as Jake is dressed in all black.
3. Shia LaBeouf -
Disturbia
Jack Dunkley -
Delirium
Uneasiness.
Same
coloured
clothing.
Represented as hero. Represented as
victim.
Key:
Difference/Coun
tertype.
Similarity/Stereo
type
4. Lizzie (the character played by Sarah) is a
countertype of the representation of teenagers.
In Films:
For example, she is represented in a similar way to
the “creepy girl” in horrors, who are normally younger.
Her bland speech and innocent clothing show this.
An example of this is the twin girls in The Shining, or
the s.
In Real Life:
In real life she is also a countertype. As you wouldn’t
expect a normal teenager to act the way that she
does.
For example, the common stereotypes of a teenager
is that they are egocentric, lazy, rebellious and so on.
The character of Lizzie doesn’t replicate any of these
stereotypes.
5. The Twins - The
Shining
Sarah Jane Eyre -
Delirium
Innocent clothing
Bland facial expression
TeenagerChildren
6. Gender
My media product countertypes the usual
representation of gender.
Normally, males are portrayed as dominant and
females are portrayed as vulnerable. In my film,
it’s the exact opposite; Lizzie is dominant and
Jake is vulnerable.