How does your media product represent particular social groups?
When casting for the role of Mindy our protagonist, we looked for a blonde female aged roughly between eleven and thirteen. The reason being, that she needed to come across to the audience as innocent, vulnerable and a victim to our antagonist Stanley. We achieved this with her sartorial codes; she is in school uniform to show that she is young, and helpless when faced with the antagonist. She is shown as a “good girl”, as she has stayed after school hours for extra curricular work.
When casting for the role of Stanley, we looked for a middle aged male. We did this so that when he faced our protagonist, he would be able to over power her. To show that our antagonist is mentally ill, his sartorial codes were women’s clothes. We purposely used close ups of Stanley where his face was hidden, as we wanted his identity hidden until later on in the opening, we used this technique to leave the audience in suspense.
The shots in the lab show representation of doctors, we did this to hint to the audience that he works in that field or a similar one. Blood is shown on the tiles of the lab; it is left to the audience on how they perceive the situation, it plays on fears.
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