Representation question 1

For age, we used a stereotypical representation of teenagers. During our opening sequence, we featured teenagers drinking alcohol as a house party. We used a strobe light effect to create a sense of distortion for the audience almost making them feel like they are involved. Our target audience was teenagers, therefore we wanted to make them feel a sense of self representation so they could relate to the situations on screen. However, with the oppose, the older woman Eileen, we used a stereotypical claim that females do a lot of things just for male attention. This supports McRobbies theory of male and female intentions. When Eileen is walking up the drive, the lighting shows the stereotypes of older people trying to almost ruin teenagers fun. This contrasts with the party scene as it shows a clear binary opposition between the two. The dark setting shows a clear pathetic fallacy which sets the mood and tells the audience how to feel about each character.

Within Gender, we challenged stereotypes for the different roles each character plays in our film. Stated by Propp, usually villain's are male dominated and usually they target younger girls as they are stereo-typically known as much weaker and more vulnerable. However, we reversed the roles to make it more appealing to more people as it is something that is not shown as much. When Eileen is in front of the board she created, we are by the mise-en-scene that her costume is very dark as she is dressed in all black. Black is a connotation of evil, so this informs us that this is the evil character, especially in her setting too. However James, the protagonist, is shown in a different way, as his costume is very bright which contrasts with Eileen so shows the opposition between the two. This shows Levi Strauss' theory of binary opposition, as it shows the characters as complete opposites as Eileen is shown in a negative way and James is shown in a positive way.