Evaluation Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film represents the social group of teenagers. This is because of their appearance, such as the way they look young, and dress casually in fairly plain clothing. This is also shown in what they're doing, such as the way they're gathered around a fire on a beach; eating, drinking, laughing and in general just messing around like the stereotypical teenager.

To analyse this more closely, we can look at our main character Amber:

We tried to make Amber representative of the stereotypical teenager in the media; she appears drunk, looks easily bored and impatient of her friend and looks fairly alternative in terms of her appearance. This makes her stand out slightly from the rest of the group, who are dressed fairly plainly and laughing and joking around. This shows that although she's different to the rest of the group, she's still a typical teenager, which makes her more relatable of people of that age group - which is also our target audience.

One character from another film that you can compare in ways to Amber is Wendy from Final Destination 3.

Although fairly different in appearance, a few similarities can be made; such as they're both female, dark haired and dress casually and in a modern way, although Amber does stand out more because she appears to be more alternative than Wendy.

Both Wendy and Amber appear to be control freaks, focusing more on themselves rather than other people. They are both shown to be typical teenagers in the events they both do; Wendy going to an amusement park with her friends and Amber going to the beach with hers. However both of these events end up badly, with both of the female characters getting away from their groups, and both escaping a gruesome death. 

Both are the main characters in their films, with the story and camera focussing mainly on them throughout. Another similarity is that the are both considered to be the last one standing (although in Final Destination this is left fairly ambiguous), as in our original plot we have all of the teenagers on the beach killed one by one until there is only one left - which would be Amber. 

By being typical teenagers both of the characters are relatable to the audience, however in the case of Amber this is slightly less in the beginning because of her moody attitude and the way she pushes away her friend who is just trying to help her.