Our horror genre traditionally represents certain social groups and it is visible in a lot of psychological horrors that we watched. Typically you see women, who are stereotypically vulnerable and of an age between 18-30.
Here is a shot of the victim in the psychological horror the ring and she represents the typical social groups that you see in most psychological horrors:
To accommodate these representations in our own horror film we chose an actress who fit into the criteria, a young woman, who is blonde and seen to be vulnerable and weak. I feel this made our film more of a success, as it was followed the conventions of a typical psychological horror and an audience would feel more sympathy towards a helpless character who is a victim in a horror and who is also quite relatable for the audience.
Below is a picture of the actress featured in our film as the victim and the only character in the film throughout, as the threat is unknown and never seen by the audience:
From out audience feedback we can see that we were effective in representing the social groups seen frequently in psychological horror films, as they said they thought our character was effective and did follow the conventions of a psychological horror film.
You can see this on our audience feedback sheet below:
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