Evaluation Two

We tried to incorporate representations of teenagers from around the ages of sixteen to eighteen during our production of the film. We mainly looked at their actions, costumes and characteristics of the group so that we could incorporate some of the stereotypes of teenagers in a social group. As our story focus' on four friends, one of which dies and comes back to haunt the other three. Bree, Carter and Elias find themselves haunted by Piper and they are all around the age of seventeen besides Piper who died at the age of fifteen.

During the opening sequence we wanted to look at the costumes that the group were going to wear during both the flashbacks and the modern day. For the girls during the flashback we had them in younger clothes with a white dress for Piper who needed to look more innocent. Bree wore more stylish and modernized clothing such as a shirt and jeans and during the modern day she wore a modern fashion jumper. For the boys we had Elias in glasses during the flashback however in the present day we had him without as most teenagers opt for contact lenses.

We also had the group using more modernized idiolect such as when Elias suggests taking a 'selfie' and Carter suggesting a modern, teenage game of 'spin the bottle' to convey the social group we had chosen to focus on. We tried to use colloquial language to define our group and make sure our representations were clear.

We also tried to make sure that we used modern technologies to show the teenage social group by using a smartphone which is stereotyped that teenagers are 'addicted' to them to allow the audience to see clearly which social group they are in.

We also incorporated a breaking of a representation from the two genders we looked at. Our group attempted to break stereotypes by making the two males during our opening sequence panic. By having the group crying out and screaming during the flashbacks it allowed us to move away from the stereotype of men being strong and emotionless by having them just as upset as Bree.