Representation of Characters

A media texts success partially comes from the effectiveness of the representation of characters throughout. Representation in the media often has a lot to do with existing stereotypes of particular groups of people. The main representations focused upon are class, age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, regional identity; whether it be commonly represented within media texts or not.

The example that I chose to depict was the horror film, 'The Cabin in the Woods' which shows a group of teens who spend time in a deserted cabin that leads them to the discovery that they are being played in some sort of game that leads to their death.

I decided to look at each individual character and investigate how they further or in fact challenge stereotypical roles through common representations of characters, specifically within the horror genre.