How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We chose teenagers to be the main protagonists also so the audience can relate to it and understand the social aspect of it.
In ‘Music Box’ we represent this teenage social group by having their costumes up-to-date with what everyone at that time would be wearing.
Stereotypically a little boy isn’t scary which is why we chose the antagonist to be a little boy. We thought that if the little boy was the antagonist and the one to be scared of this will add to the suspense and surprise the audience will feel and get when watching the thriller which is the emotion we wanted to obtain from them.
They are messing around on the train; looking at each others phone etc. which also represents the characters personalities as well as being teenagers.
For ‘Music Box’ we decided to have a group of teenagers being the main social group we see.
Because the teenagers are the ones more vulnerable and the ones in danger this will rub off onto the audience which will hopefully make the opening sequence more daunting for them.
We thought that the antagonist should still be male to follow the general thriller convention as it may still embrace the stereotypical male dominance, even though he is a little boy.