Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups

What social group is being represented in your film opening?
The protagonists in our film are between the ages of 16 and 17 and the reason why we chose these ages is because we felt that the audience could understand the emotions that the characters were feeling and the events that were taking place in the film. Our target audience age is 15-18 years.

Gender
They are all female characters, and this is mainly due to the fact this was our chosen group and based on the fact that we all wanted to act. Although, we never really thought about incorporating other people into our film which is something that we'd probably consider the next time.

Class
The classes of the characters are working class, and we decided this because we want the audience to be able to relate to the characters. The clothes and what the group's doing can tell that they are working class citizens.

Race
Due to the fact we didn't take into consideration that using other actors/actresses in our film would be a good idea we didn't have any races, and this is mainly because of the group we were put in.

PROTAGONIST

Age- 16-17

Race- White, British

Gender- Female

Class- Working Class

Over view of protagonist in our film

The protagonist I chose to analyse was the girl who went missing who wasn't seen very much in the film, which could be symbolic of how she goes missing. Her character was of an outgoing personality, and wasn't bothered anyone she offended, and she was also quite authoritative. The reason why we chose this type of character is because typically in horror films the people who are presented as being annoying or someone that the audience doesn't like get's picked off first. (The person below holding the camera)

PROTAGONIST

Age- 23

Race- UNKOWN

Gender- Male

Class- Working class

Overview of protagonist in 'Blair witch project'

The protagonist in the 'Blair witch project' is called Joshua and at the beginning he is quite a funny character but begins to get very anxious and comes across as being in control when they realise they can't get out of the woods. He is the one character that goes missing and the other two characters don't find him.

SIMILARITIES- between the protagonists

• They both go missing

• They're both camping in the woods

• The group can't find them

• The group hear them screaming in the night

• Same class

• Both authoritative

DIFFERENCES- between the protagonists

• Genders

• Ages

• Attitudes and overall personality

• One dies

Why did we choose this specific character?

The reason why we chose this character was because we thought the idea of including someone who was an easily dislikeable character not only to the group in the film, but also to the audience, was an interesting idea. Even though this character wasn't very active in the opening, throughout the rest of the film, her character would have been to developed by the other characters and they would have described her as being the disliked member of the group. By making this character dislikeable meant the audience would be more involved in the film and hopefully would have wanted to carry on watching it.