Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
A social group is usually a collective of people of the same age with the same interests or sometimes even religious groups. 
In our film we have a young character who appears just an average teenager, we wanted this to be portrayed to create an element of shock when the girl is captured as you wouldn't stereotype her to be a type that would get into trouble. The second character who is seen following wears dark clothing and a hood in order to create a dark, troublesome feeling. A common perception of people wearing hoods in dry weather, particularly teens, is that they are going to cause some trouble. Because of this we felt that we could easily achieve a character to appear threatening. 
We represented the character types mainly by using costume and lighting. The innocent and average everyday type character dressed in a casual light grey sweater to create a sense of normality, the audience we felt would not feel that this character could be the villain because of the look. The color of the sweater also was intentional, we chose a light color because we felt it softened the character and emphasized the darkness of the villain. The villain wore an all black hooded jacket with the hood up creating complete mystery and therefore making us feel uncomfortable and intimidated.