How does your media product represent particular social

group?

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Female child aged 8: stereotyped to be innocent, wear colourful clothes, always joyful and playing. In our opening sequence, we represented her wearing a colourful top and a hoodie with jeans and trainers. Usually you would expect a girl this age to dress a bit more girly, for example in dress

We decided to choose female child, because mostly children are victim of unstable emotionally people, as they are vulnerable and easy to lure – especially girls

What social group does your main character represent and why?

Our main character is the clown: he is young adult represented as being someone that has been disturbed from an early childhood a you can see in the flashbacks. In the flashback you can hear the parents arguing in the background.

We decided to choose this social group because usually in psychological horrors main characters are adults, as they had chance to experience trauma in their life. Also it is more likely for adult to have mental problems, for example, because they experienced trauma in childhood and later when they already grew up this trauma back to them and effect their mentality.

How do you represent your main character through MES-ES-SCENE?

The girl’s clothes highlight her young age. Colourful top can represent her great imagination and young age.

The Clown’s outfit, during the day is quiet normal. He wears maroon hoodie and black jeans. This is a little different to other young adult, as they wears mostly casual clothes, because at this age they are more mature.

Clown’s sharp tool shows that he can be dangerous and able to harm someone, as this is not normal that people have sharp tools with them.

Empty bottles from alcohol on windowsill shows that he grew up in dysfunctional family, which create idea that he had unstable childhood.

Facial expression and body language

Assertive posture and facial expression shows that he is self-confidence

The body language of female girl, when she is on swing, shows that she is vulnerable. She firmly holds chain, which shows that this makes her feel safe.

The body language of female girl when she runs away shows that she is scary. A quick run shows that she want to escape as soon as possible from this place where unknown man scared her.

Her facial expressions seems confused which is what you would expect from a small child. This shows that she don’t know what is going on and she starts to be frightened.

Facial expression of girl shows that she tries to be nice to unknown man, as she wants to smile to him.

Facial expression of Clown looks friendly, as he smiles

back to girl. However fact that he is staring at her shows that he is strange and something

with him is wrong. This shows that he is disturbed

The rapid movements while he is torturing Clown doll shows that he is unstable

emotionally

His facial expression shows that he is scary. This shows

that he has mental problems, as he is scary of inanimate

objects.

He walks slowly which shows that he isn't in a rush and he is taking things slowly which is usually how people with psychological problems like to do things.

Locations The place where girl is portray her as a child. Fact that she is in park shows that she wants to have fun and play around. This is normal for child aged 8 that they enjoy playing in the park.

Fact that she was alone in the park shows that she is clever for her age and parents trust her.

Moreover fact that she is playing in the park next to her house shows that she is scary to go somewhere without her parents. By playing in the park she is sure that her parents can look at her from window.

Clown during the day is looking on children in the park, this portray him as strange person, as this is not normal that young adult is staring at children in the park. , especially when there is no one from his family.

When in the evening Clown is back to the park and looks at the swing, where girl was, shows his mentally problems. Moreover he is going to the front of girl’s house, which shows that he was observed and he knows where she is living. This highlight his obsession and mentally problems.

How do you represent your main character through the camera shots and editing?

Our main character is represented as disturbed and mentally ill through the camera shots and editing.

We used close-ups and mid shots, which shows his facial expression and attitude.

The changing of his facial expression shows that he is unstable emotionally, as during the day he looked friendly, whereas in the evening he was emphatic and looked dangerous.

Also we tired to shows his as a disturbed person be using dissolve transition when he is putting his make-up. This shows that now he wants to become the object, which traumatized his as a child

Moreover we tired to shows his as a disturbed person by using fast pace editing while he is walking to the front of girl’s house to create a tension, so audience could become panic, because they doesn’t know what he is planning to do to this child, as from flashbacks they discovered that he had unstable child and he is unstable emotionally

Our other character is represented as a innocent and scared

We used close-ups, mid shots and long shots to display her vulnerability. Through the use of these shots audience could notice her facial expression and body language.

Through editing she was represented as innocent as well as scared. The innocence was shown with eye-line matching and shot reverse shot when for the first time she saw unknown man (Clown).

The scared representation was shown when she was running away by match on action. She was scared because unknown man (Clown) gone and she didn’t know what actually happen, as he was staring at her and even smiling to her and suddenly he is not there.

How do you represent your main character through the music?

Through music our main character – Clown is represented as unstable person

During flashback audience can hear the arguments between two adults, which create idea that young boy grew up in dysfunctional

family and he didn’t get a lot of attention from his parents. This gave effect on his emotionality