How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Throughout our film, the only character the audience are able to see and empathise with is the babysitter; we do not show – at any point – the caller or the child she is supposedly babysitting. We felt she should be portrayed as a typical teenager which meant we dressed her in jeans and a t-shirt. The babysitter we used is age 17, this is a regular age that girls babysit, and therefore we used her as we wanted it to be a very familiar scene and very typical attitude and clothes to a real life situation. We also felt as though her clothes contributed to the mise-en-scene of our film as we do not want to give the impression that she is particularly special, this is why we filmed her watching TV and drinking Fanta. We have used props throughout our film to help add verisimilitude to encourage the viewer to believe that what they are watching is real – this can be shown by the typical clothes and style if the girl. We used a pile of magazines, a Fanta can and the television remote to show the fact that she has made herself at home and feels very comfortable... this is ironic and this is what we wanted to create to make our film confusing. We used a South-East accent for the babysitter as this is where our film was based The small details we used throughout our film helped to create meaning for our specific target audience as it includes them into the film and many of the audience can relate to our babysitter and put themselves into her position.