Representations In Our Film Opening

We have established the target audience for our film opening to be teenagers or young adults and more specifically, males. This is backed up by our main character being a stereotypical male teenager. The stereotypical male teen is portrayed as a scream queen figure; he will be the male scream queen and the female character that Sam and I are yet to introduce will be the stereotypical female scream queen with blonde hair and references to being sexually active. We have attempted to portray the main character to be a male scream queen in several ways. For example, in the mise en scene we have included posters that make references to drugs and sex.

This shot contains a Bob Marley poster in the background which makes relates to drug use. Also, behind the laptop, there is a poster of naked women which relates to the character being sexually active. The joggers that the character is wearing connote to the character being lazy, like stereotypical teenagers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This shot shows the character rolling down his blinds which represents it being night time, when most killings in the slasher genre occur!