My media product shows clear examples of social groups, gender being one of them. By having the boy saving the girl this suggests that my media product is conveying males to be more independent and dominant over females. Obviously I am the creator of this film, however I do not share these views at all, and I am merely following generic conventions to ensure my film is realistic. It’s typical for the male to save the “damsel in distress.” I researched the meaning of a damsel in distress …”She is usually a beautiful young woman placed in a dire predicament by a villain or a monster and who requires a hero to dash to her rescue.” This hero is typically male. My product also represents sexuality. In the film it is clear that the two characters Ellie and Brad are in a relationship, I made this clear by having my arm around her in a few shots; also there is a shot which implies they have a sexual relationship too, because I take her coat off while kissing her, then it cuts to an ellipses so the audience are lead to believe they had sex. It is a clever constructed shot as it tells the audience what happens without graphically showing them. These two characters clearly represent heterosexuality, I decided to include sexuality in my film because it’s a very large part of a teenagers life and also because pretty much every horror film includes sexual relationships. By not having a homosexual theme in my film, I’m not saying its wrong; it’s just that I want to appeal to the masses, and it’s only the minority who are homosexual. Therefore heterosexual relationships within my film are bound to attract a larger audience than homosexual ones. However, after evaluating my work and looking back I could argue that showing homosexual scenes would be highly controversial and is almost certain to attract an audience just because of the sheer controversy which would be caused by it.
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