Hufan Jama - Question 2 : How does your media product represent particular social group?

The main character Vanessa Hardwell, who is a student, who enjoys ballet.  The hobby (ballet) was the key focus for us as we wanted to reach out to the audience as dance is universal. For us. We also had to think about the stereotypes of teens in society today which were, rebellious, violent, chatty, antisocial, naive, popular etc.  We wanted our audience to love Venessa and what to be like her so we thought she had to be popular like the main character from "Prom Night" Donna Keppel. 

The antagonist character (stalker) was based on the stalker character from "Prom Night". We were inspired by the character and wanted our stalker character to be similar to him. So watched "Prom Night" and analysed his clothing, attitude towards other characters etc. So we created a character profile. We wanted our characters to be close but far apart as well so we thought long and hard we could do that. We came up with the idea that he should be a janitor and Venessa's school. The representations of the two characters i would say is typical and is not subversive towards stereotypes, as Venessa Hardwell is blonde, popular and dances. We made her the victim as majority of women in real media products are female and are shown to be vulnerable at some point during a film. The stalker character is male which we thought was appropriate as men tend to be more violent than women, which would make our product more believable.