Heeral Patel – evaluation: question 2 how does your media product represent particular social groups?

  

Young blonde girls are often stereotyped as making little use of their intelligence. Similarly in our opening we have a middle class girl who is emotional unstable, weak girl who gets disturbed by the bizarre situations occurring with her.

This idea is linked back to the film ‘the hand that rocks a cradle’. Where the woman is emotional broken down after finding out her husband’s affairs therefore loses her child due to stress.

The 1992 thriller film' the hand that rocks the cradles
staring Peyton Flanders 

Maya Dolman Bowles

From our questionnaire we asked many of our volunteer what class they belonged to?Most were lower/middle class so for that reason we choose a character who’s an ordinary British girl who seems closed and vulnerable. 

• Peyton Flanders takes on a job of a nanny in order to destroy a woman’s happiness by stealing her family.
• She takes on this role as she can’t bare the trauma of miscarriage and her husband’s affair.  
•  Audience's make stereotypical views on blonde female social groups are as being less intelligent.
• Her appearance is very much similar to our character as they are both young attractive women who are mental disturbed yet unnoticeable.