The victim here is a white american female aged probably late 20s, by the looks of her appearance and home she is most probably working class possibly middle class. She is represented being very anxious and quite scared, due to this she can't sleep and wakes. The threat however is quite a tall long haired white male who looks around 30/40 years old, he is wearing quite dark clothing and is probably working class. He is represented as very short tempered when he sees the woman he suddenly becomes quite angry which scares the woman. This follows a lot of stereotypes and the dominant ideology that males are the dominant gender and are more controlling over women therefore they scare women very easily.
The victim in this scene is a white young boy aged roughly around 10, he is represented as quite scared and worried again probably because he is younger. Strange things are happening around what looks like his home and he is very anxiously exploring to try and find the source of the strange sounds. He is almost quite brave as he explores the house and confronts the threat. This challenges many stereotypes as most people will believe young boys to be easily scared and not to confront threats head on or try and find the problem. The threat is a white girl roughly aged the same as the boy who is represented looking very sad and ill, she doesn't look that threatening as most stereotypical psychological threats. This challenges stereotypes and also the fact that the girl is now the threat and the boy is the victim is challenging the stereotype from the previous video.
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We chose the male actor because he seemed to fit the part. As he looks quite old and mature, because of his facial hair, he's an English white slim character which fits the stereotypes of most psychological horror couples.
The female actress also fits the part as she looks the right age to suit the male actor and looks very mature. She is also slim and white English which suits the stereotypes of psychological horrors again.
The story of a new couple moving into a new house trying to start a life fits our actors appropriately. There seems to be strange behaviour in the neighbor hood, and weird happening from inside the house too. This fits with the conventions of modern psychological horror films as most of them seem to be young couples being haunted because of their house of their family.
Our target audience is mainly 15-25 year olds as they match the age of the victims so it will reference to them and their lifestyle much more than for example a 70 year old man watching the film. People who will watch this will probably be working class couples that are interest in horror films.
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