EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

amie, signature

Danielle Panabakerm, Friday the 13th, jenna(charecter)

In looks and costume the two are very similar. They both have similar facial features with brown hair, both not what you would stereo-typically associate with a horror movie girl but i feel this adds to the appeal of the two characters they are both also dressed in a light top with coupled with a dark   jacket/jumper this i feel helps the viewer identify with the character more as most teens dress in some way similar to these two girls.  Amie is the first to be seen to die in signature but from the opening images of newspaper clippings we know he has killed before. Her death is not seen just her capture which she goes down with out much of i fight. the fact that her actual death is not seen by the audience shows how unimportant she is to the film as they cut to the other character this could also suggest coupled with her lack of fight that her death is not worth capturing as she dies so quickly another interpretation of her death not being shown is that it allows the audiences imagination to deiced out how she died something that is not often seen in the horror genre. her character represents the a stereotypical defenseless teen aged girl who does thing with out thinking which is often shown in horror movies and normally among the first to die.  

Comparing Amies death to Danielle`s there are major differences. Denielle`s character Jenna is central to the movie and is the last to die emphasising her importance, her death in itself is quite unexpected as she meets her end while attempting to escape from Jason's underground lair where She gets a machete through the chest in a very graphic way. This is completely different from Amie`s character where her death is not seen as previously stated. Jenna represents the typical leader of a group; strong, friendly, takes things as they come all are natural characteristics of a strong leader and are also not shown in amie`s character.