Drag Me To Hell:
This is an extract from Drag Me To Hell. In this clip it represents how the older generation (the old women) is seen as the villain. With the young girl giving off the impression that she is scared and vulnerable, this suggests that in this case, the younger generation is the victim where as the old lady is the threat. In my opinion i feel in some ways both characters fit the stereotypes of there generation. The young girl is seen as a hard working person, who has pretty much a perfect life style. When the old women starts interrogating her at first she plays it cool, but after time she starts to get a bit aggravated which is when her fear starts to come through. Similarly the old lady fits the stereotype of being a bit crazy and mad. However i don't think I could really comment on this as stereotypically not every old lady is possessed!! I also think that the gender is important, by making both the victim and the threat female, this shows that she typical stereotype is proven yet also broken. The young girl fits the stereotype as most people assume that young females are typically vulnerable and scared of pretty much everything. Where as the older lady breaks that as she is shown as being evil.
Paranormal Activity:
In this clip from Paranormal Activity, the threat isnt shown. However the victims are, the victims fit into the following social class groups; both female and male who seem to fall under the 18-25 year age group. From this clip we cant really state what class the fall under, however I think it's safe to say that they are working class citizens. This is represented through the mise en scene. The setting of the bedroom istelf gives us the impression that they are working class, as they can afford goos furniture and a nice house etc. The age is represented through the way that the characters apprearance. Even though the way the young female character is behaving, gives of the impression that she is younger then she appears. However, to me, both the characters looke between the ages of 18-25. The genders of the characters dont need to be represented in any special way, as it is pretty obvious what genders both characters are!
In my opinion, i feel that the characters DO follow the stereo typical of age and gender, however I feel that race isn't as important as the others, as the race doesnt have much of an affect on the characters/film itself. In horror films, female characters tend to act girly and scared whilst under threat. This was potrayed through this clip from Paranormal Activity. The male genre always tend to be potrayed as keeping their cool in scary situations, making sure that the other character (which tends to be a female) is alright and safe. Almost as if the male characters are putting on a act!
These are our test shots for the actors that we have chosen. We felt that it was right for us to include generic and age conventions because typically in horror films, the younger character is seen as the threat. So we decided it would look better if we used a young girl as the threat in ours.
Our storyboard also fits in with this as through out it has perfect opportunities to show the conventions we are using. The ghost girl we use is haunting the older male character, which fits in with other typical ghost films, by having the threat as a child.
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After researching into many different films that fit in with our genre; Ghost/Thriller horror film, we have come to the conclusion that on average, both genders (Females and Males) and the age groups that enjoy this horror genre.
Most of these films have the threat as a young girl, and the victim as a young person between the ages of 18-25.
We have come to the conclusion that we have decided to make our horror film a 15 certificate, as it fits the correct criteria. Also, we are going to make our target audience both gender groups and for anyone between the ages of 15 and 18 (however people over the age of 18 are welcome to watch aswell!)
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