Evaluation Activity 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups

This shows a detective who does everything by the book and is very good at doing his job. This challenges the stereotype of young detectives in crime films as most are shown as mavericks, such as Riggs in Lethal Weapon:

However, there is also a tradition of showing more senior policemen as being more responsible and so we are subverting this as the responsible policeman is young. An example of an older, more traditional detective is Detective Somerset in Se7en:

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In our film, the girl was presented as a helpless victim and this is similar to many horror film, such as The Evil Dead, where the female characters, such as Cheryl are underdeveloped:

However, some horror films subvert this stereotype, such as the character of Sidney Prescott in Scream, who complains about the fact that women are always portrayed in this way in horror films: