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Representation means how something is portrayed, this is important in films as the representation of characters helps us to understand the plot and one of the common things that we look for is stereotyping. Characters in films are often represented by using conventions. For example, the victim in a horror film will stereotypically be a young blonde female, this is a convention of a horror film.

1.In this clip from A nightmare on Elm street, the threat hear is a middle aged man and the victim is a teenage female. The young girl is being represented as the victim and the man is the threat, this is typical of a slasher film. The young female victim carries out well know stereotypes of teenage girls throughout her part in the film.

2.Me and Jake have decided that these actors would be good to use as the female looks like a typical teenage girl, and the will be portrayed as a teenage mother. In most of the slasher films that I have seen, only obvious stereotypes are used, we plan to use the least obvious stereotype of teenage pregnancy and being unable to cope on their own. Also following the conventions of slasher films, the female here is the victim and the threat is male. The male actor is quite tall which also is a convention of slasher films as it will make the threat seem more intimidating.