Representation of Gender

Gender Representation in our film

Most females in our genre are represented as helpless, week and if they are the fighting strong female who can help themselves and fight, they are usually at some point sexualised. This is very stereotypical for woman and we didn't want to do this. Also in the majority of apocalypse films the main characters arn't not female and the film focuses on male protagonists

In some video games for example where you can play as a female they are not presented as sexualised or week, for example Ellie. obviously video games are much different to films, however this game in particular I liked the way they showed Ellie being a strong/not sexualised female  This is the inspiration we wanted for our main female characters.

Ellie from the award winning game "The last of us"

 We will have no love theme, or males being the hero, just the two girls running and showing that their main want is to survive, stopping at nothing