When choosing our target audience, when at the researching and planning stage of our work, we decided that our film should be for people over the age of 15, as our film (as a psychological horror) may be inappropriate for anyone below that age, as our film wouild contain frightening scenes that may scare younger children. Our film is open to people of any race or class.
Our main character challenges the stereotype of a typical horror film by having a female aggressor, however we have conformed with the stereotypical conventions of horror by having a female victim, shown through the rag doll. However, the generic convention of a horror film is to have a male aggressor, which our film challenges, as our aggressor is not only female, but also a child.
Our main character has the mental age of a child, but has the body of a teenager. This breaks the stereotypical idea of a child's innocence.
We only show one other person in our film which is the older brother, the brother is shown cleaning the room, he looks after his younger sister but does not try to control her in any way. Here our film also shows a role reversal, because the older brother is seen tidying up the girl's room, which stereotypically is something a mother would do. Our character's break stereotypical conventions, of the older brother being dominant and powerful, becasue he is both a male and older than the girl. However, in our film the young girl is the powerful character, and the fact that her brother cleans up after her shows that she has the controlin their relationship.
We chose not to show the girl's parents, which adds mystery to our film, it also portrays the idea that the girl's parents had died, which is why she kills others.
The young girl is free to do as she pleases, left to her own devices, it breaks stereotypes of a child, because a child would not normally have that much freedom, e.g. the ability to just leave the house and go to the park.
Character comparisons
We have chosen to compare the main character in our film to the children in The Orphanage. The children in The Orphanage are threatening and misunderstood, even though they seem innocent from the outside, i.e. they wear childish clothes like dungarees and play masks, yet their role in the film is very important. We adapted our film from The Orphanage by having only one child, where The Orphanage had lots, and our main character was female whereas The Orphanage was male. This breaks the stereotypical preferred reading of how children should behave, they are percieved as innocent, which the character in our film contradicts.
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