Evaluation 2 - How social groups are represented

Most target audiences for most horrors are 18-25, this means the audience will be related more to people their age and engage more with the usage of these aged characters. So, if the victim is about 20 years old, then the audience will be more likely to relate their lives to this situation as it automatically places them in their situation.

 

Often teenage characters are displayed as annoying and self centred so audiences are often driven to want them to die. This means audience engage with the characters but still feel themselves to be separate even superior to them.
However other times in these films teens are displayed as vulnerable and weak, causing the audiences to pity them and fear for their lives. Therefore when the characters die the audiences are shocked and so the scene appears scarier.

Our character (Emma) is similar to one of the characters in scream 4 in the way that she is lead astray by friends which causes her to get caught up in what she tries to stay out of. Which incidently causes her death, they are both characters whos deaths shock the audience.