Sadie's Evaluation. Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

A closer view of our character.

I believe that this contrast of stereotypes, shows that she could be represented in two ways.
Firstly because of the way she is dressed and the fact that she is a female being chased, normally in adventure, horror and thriller films the general sterotype is that the female is always inferior to the male, and in almost all cases the female had to rely on him to save her, thus creating the role of a typical "Damsel in distress". This would be the most obvious portrayal to us, seeing as she looks like the victim, being chased by 3 much larger, agressive male-zombies. However,  like i briefly noted on the first image, she did manage not to get caught, but find slight refuge behind the door. Whereas typical inferior female characters are strongly known to have always been caught.

Showing that although she is behind a door, shown by how her expression, how her weapon is positioned and her body language is she still looks as if she will fight if zombies were to knock down the door. Another thing that shows she might be able to independently handle this situation is the blood stained bat she it holding. This could show that she has very recently fought off more zombies, succeding in killing them, and perhaps capeable of doing it again, despite the overpowering circumstances.

Another strong female i would like to compare her to is "Selena" from "28 weeks later"

In many ways Selena is very similar to the unconvential side of our character, she is rutheless and violent, living to keep herself alive and is a brutal zombile killing hero.
Much like how we partly intended our main character to be like.
In both of the image of our main female character, and this one, she is shown to be holding a weapon. Proving she is not to go down easily, without a fight and is ready for anything that gets thrown at her.

This kind of representation of an indipendent female character appeals to our female audience as i believe not all girls like to be represented as weak, as times have changed, so how female roles & i think the majority of them prefer them to be represented a stronger character, almost equal to male roles in films.