HR: [QUESTION 2] How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• In our film opening, our protagonists are middle class British females. We represent this social group as brave and strong which is unconventional of a horror film as the females are usually the victims or are there for their sex appeal.

• The first antagonist that you see is a male. Within this sequence, he is the only antagonist of this gender so this represents men as menacing and devious. It also increases the tension as he is chasing the females and the audience don't know if he is going to catch up with them. 



• The other males in our piece are corpses on the floor devoured by the zombies, so this represents men as victims, so one reading of this is that they were trying to protect the other two female corpses but failed or other is that they are prone victims due to their vulnerability.

• The other two zombies in our piece were female and you don't see them until the protagonists get to the graveyard, so these zombies are following the male zombie which represents females as obedient and not independent as if they have to rely on the male on what to do which is a residual ideology as not many females these days think like this. Other reading of this is that the female zombies knew exactly what they had to do without needing the assistant of the male because as soon as the protagonists entered the graveyard they ran towards them.

• We didn't use any adults in our piece as we wanted to keep to our target audience of 12-29 year old so we felt in order for them to relate to the characters more they would have to be within that age group so we used teenagers and children.
• The first shot of our opening is a close up of a corpse of a young girl, so this positions the audience to have an emotional response as children are represented as defenceless and weak. Of the the corpses on the ground, two of them are young girls.