How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our Protagonist is a teenager, we don't actually learn much all we learn is that he is trapped. But in terms of representation, he looks like an emo kid as he is pale. He looks similar to guitarist Pete Wentz who is from a particularly emo rock band. In terms of negative representation, he is beaten up, this may make the character seem weak. My film Mute is about teenagers who have been captured and literally piled up in a pitch black room waiting to die or even worse have the horrible torture waiting to come for them just to please one sick minded and mentally disturbed man. Teenagers in my film are represented to be weak willed and helpless. Other films that employ this tactic are basically any other kind of horror, but usually the American films. Just like capture and torture films like ‘Saw’ the adults usually make it out alive since they have more wit and life experience than the younger generation. This fits in with Saw as there is just one man trying to escape after been drugged and kidnapped from his home, you don’t find out the reason but later on in the film everything becomes clear as to why he was put here and he starts put together the clues he realises the horrible truth that he is actually the mastermind behind this whole scheme of things. This movie is not intended to be aimed at a audience younger than 15 as it is very jumpy and features a lot of blood and gore .This movie connects with teenagers since it is a thriller/horror and this is the particular genre of movie an average teenager will go to see and since all the cast are teenagers it works even better. This wouldn’t connect as well to Adults since most don’t go for horrors, they like the high concept action movies like the Mission Impossible franchise.Young people are often represented as chav’s and hoodies and the fact that a certain group of hoodies were banned in shopping centre Bluewater just outside for wearing hoods .The representation in the press is about them being vandals and hooligens who prey on the older generation robbing , mugging and beating up people for fun . People are scared by a group of hoodies hanging around they feel imtimitated. Our film represents teenagers in a very different way. This man who captured all these teenagers and taken them hostage in this room. He has a strong hatred for teenagers as a social group as they are seen as vandals and have no feelings for the older generation or anyone else except them selves. Maybe he has been mugged and assaulted often and has had enough of the hoodies taking advantage of him and his age. But our film makes teenagers seem like weak and subservient people as they are all tied up and gagged and this renders them useless to themselves as they have no chance of escaping. This shows teenagers in the light of a victim, making them the prey and no longer the predator hunting down easy targets on the street.