In our media product we decided that our main character, Bertie would be young character who was of a school age. This we thought would seem good as his age may give of the idea that he is more vulnerable than say an adult. As Bertie was going to be possessed, we wanted him to be more vulnerable and less able to fight back; which I think we portrayed well in our production, the part in particular when Bertie was upset with what he had become. Another thing we aimed to make Bertie was to contrast with the idea of him being vulnerable, and was the typical ideology that males are dominant and often become heroes by saving someone or something from the antagonist. This made it hard for us to show both the vulnerability of Bertie as well as his ability to fight against the antagonist. This is because Bertie at times was both the protagonist and antagonist. Therefore we are sticking to a stereotype, that children are more vulnerable; but also challenging it as Bertie is both the protagonist and antagonist.
we tried to stick to usual scary locations in our thriller as we wanted to use typical conventions of thrillers with low key lighting. Therefore we chose a wood as our setting. As teenagers often go camping and walking in woods. Which is why we included Anna walking through the wood. This is why we thought this would be an appropriate location for filming. Additionally woods are stereotypically calming and relaxing to be in.
Furthermore we wanted our target audience to be able to relate too. This is another reason why we portrayed teenagers in our opening. Also us being teenagers ourselves we knew first hand how we wanted to represent actors in our film and what we would look for as a target audience. This is why we gave characters similar values to ours, which is a use of gratification we needed in our thriller opening.
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