Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Looking at Let The Right One In, it is clear that the only person capable of defending and protecting Oskar is another child, Eli. This suggests that adults do not look out for the children properly and that it is left to the other children to run their own social group. This is very interesting as it turns the conventions of children's normal social world upside down, as it takes the role of protection and gives it to other children instead of to adults. Similarly in Michael, the adult has captured the child and is holding him against his will. This also goes against the usual status of an adult being there to protect the child. In some ways it is almost as if the children have been failed by adults in both of these films.
In my film I have represented a young child being kidnapped by another young person, which again shows the failure of the adults to protect the children properly. It represents the child as being vulnerable and in need of protection but it is unclear where this protection and defence is going to come from. This is important because I think that one of parents' worst fears in life is having to search for their child just because they quickly misplace them. Our film shows how, at the beginning, you look at the young girl and older girl as if they're sisters, or she's a nanny or guardian, but by the end of the film you can see that she being taken from her father who you can faintly hear in the background. This clearly shows that the viewers expect that because the older girl looks like a mother or sister, one would presume she's trustworthy, but in fact she's being taken without the young girl even knowing what's going on. Finally the young girl would represent the older girl as a figure she could trust because of how children are being brought up to be polite to everyone they meet.