Representation is important within films in order to create something realistic for the audience to believe.
In our films we have used different conventions to represent different social groups.
Our film represents two social groups. It represents teenagers and mums.
Representing a teenager was easy, as I am one myself, so I already know the conventions associated with teenagers. I knew that to represent a teenager you had to use a few of these conventions:
· Hanging out with their friends
· Swearing
· Drinking
· Loud music
· Can’t put their phones down
Etc….
Our film clearly represents the typical teenage girl!
The first few shots in our film really conform to dominant ideologies because straight after her mum has left we see her go to the fridge to get a beer and then call her mates up to invite them round. This is a typical teenage thing to do and I thought that our target audience would be able to relate to Robyn, as I’m sure that most people have done this at some point.
Also when she goes up the stairs I thought that it would represent a teenage girl best if she went straight to her computer and went on facebook or something.
Another teenage stereotype we put into the film was swearing, when the power goes out she swears and grabs for he phone, conforming to other the ideologies of swearing and cant live without their phones.
Although the mum wasn’t in the film for long, two shots, we still had to represent her social group through her in the time she was in the film.
Although the audience don’t know where she is going we can see from her outfit that she was going out somewhere nice because she was dressed in “going out clothes”.
Usually mums have a close relationship with their daughter, which was clearly shown through the beginning of the film when she calls her to say goodbye and kisses her as well.
I am going to analyze the part where the girl is in the bathroom, after she has chosen her new room.
The two characters I want to analyze are the girl and the ghost girl, the threat.
The girl represents a typical teenage girl.
She is the victim, which conforms to dominant ideologies, girls are used because they aren’t masculine and butch so they seem more vulnerable.
Another ideology this scene conforms to is that girls get excited and she gets excited about finding a room she likes.
Another ideology about girls is that they care about their appearance and in this clip she stands in the mirror doing her hair and grooming herself.
The ghost is represented because she is stood their watching the girl in the mirror and the alive girl can’t see her.
The threat is also a girl, which conforms to conventions in the ghost sub-genre.
When the threat is watching the girl in the mirror she starts to copy her, almost as if she has forgot what it is like to be a girl and have to care about your appearance.
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The victim is a young boy. His gender challenges dominant ideologies because boys are supposed to be fearless and brave. Usually they use young girls to make them seem more vulnerable but because they have used a boy it shows how scary his situation is.
The ghost is of a woman, which he mistakes for his mum. They obviously wanted her to be like his mum to make the situation less frightening and shock the audience when it isn’t.
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