My media sequence represents social gender and age. The opening of my sequence shows a teenage girl sitting in her home at Christmas time, shown by a point of view. In the terms of using age, I wanted to use a teenage girl to play the most important role of my sequence to create stereotypical characteristics and also use her to focus on my films target audience. The point of view shot I used was to emphasise that this girl is being watched, but I did not want to give away who or what is watching her. Through the use of the point of view shots, I wanted to show the stereotypical view of the ‘Stalker’ watching a ‘Teenage Girl’, therefore the teenage girl is always the target of a horror film. My sequence shows that the girl being watched is in her later teens showing that my media product is showing representation of gender of a stereotypical character. My sequence also shows realism within the society, because girls are always the targets of stalkers in our society and I believe my sequence is a reflection of how society is today.
My horror sequence is a representation of a young woman being oblivious to her surroundings and unable to look after her well being because of being oblivious. The girl in my sequence portrays a stereotypical young innocent girl becoming the victim of a growing attack from a more dominant character, this creating appeal for the young audience as they may have recalled representations of the girl being dominated by another stronger person in society.
The shots in my sequence show the girl characters modern house, showing her social appearance in modern society. First of all, through camera shots they show the time of year of the film, Christmas. Christmas time being a time of happiness for families, our shots show the girl is alone, giving indication she has no family, or they are not home at this time. When filming i did not take into consideration of the costumes therefore I believe I could of made this better enabling me to portray the girls life, time of year a bit better. The location we used was also very good but i began to question if it was in fact too big to use, but I feel this is worked in favour now reviewing it.
Another aspect to represent dominance over the girl through another character is through editing. Throughout the sequence the girl is unaware of being watched therefore showing an indication of dominance already, as the stalker is always one step ahead. The point of view shots from the stalker last longer than shots of the girl showing another aspect of dominance as although the main focus is the girl in the shot, the main objective of the audience is wondering who this stalker actually is and why is he watching her. As the stalker gets closer to the girl frequent cuts are made to make the sequence jumpy, therefore showing how his dominance will come apparent once the girl realises she is being stalked, this showing more stereotypical views of the woman being weaker and helpless to the dominant stalker.
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