Evaluation Q2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The film ‘When a Stranger Calls’ is about a girl who is still in high school and is babysitting , when she receives pranks calls each getting more and more scary and threatening. It’s a psychological thriller much like our film ‘Hourglass’ is. ‘Hourglass’ is about  teenage girl who has to solve puzzles before the hourglass runs out each puzzle gets harder and more complicated as the puzzles go along.

 ‘When a Stranger Calls’ is similar to our film ‘Hourglass’ as both the main characters are female teenagers roughly 17-18 both films have an aspect of time to them ‘When a stranger calls’ is about not having enough time to escape from the house away from the person who is trying to kill her, time is most important when trying to catch the killer as she has to stay on the phone for longer than a minute so the police can locate where the killer is ringing from as shown to the bottom right and ‘Hourglass’ is about not having enough time to escape possibly her own mind and not enough time to finish the puzzles to escape from the room as shown to the bottom left.

Both characters in each film become more and more scared of their surroundings, and possibly of themselves at the end of both films the girls are delusional and perhaps psychologically damaged. 

The saw franchise are also other films similar to ours as they have the theme of time and puzzles. Our target audience of between 15-25 are attracted to the psychological aspects shown in all three films.