Question 2) how does your media product represent particular social groups?

On the left is a picture of Katherine from our film opening 'The Escaped' and on the right is Samara from the film 'The Ring'. both characters are mentally disturbed young women.
both of the characters many similarities and many differences in the way they look, their costumes and the roles in the films.

Some similarities of the two characters in their appearance is that they both have the same style of hair with it in front of their faces as if the two girls are hiding behind it and the evil possessed eyes and devilish facial expression which adds to the scariness and horror conventions that both films have.
Similarities between the two characters are that they have similar costumes and that they are both in white plan straightforward night gowns which adds to the physciatric tendencies of both characters, but with both girls wearing these outside of the mental hospital it is out of place and it seems that both girls are outsiders.
Similarities between the characters and the film roles are that they both have physciatric tendencies and kill people violently.

Some differences between the two characters are that the girl from The Ring is younger than Katherine, and they have different styled and colour hair and Katherine has less realistic special effects because we didn't have the same budget as the Ring, so we did not have as big of a budget as the ring because we are not a big production company where as the people who made the ring have the money to spend on special effects.
differences between the two girls within the role the film is that Katherine is older and therefore acts older in her role.