Question Two - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Fundamentally, I feel that our group represented a couple of different social groups. We did not want to overload our thriller opening in these terms because we felt too much would confuse the audience, so we kept it fairly simple.

 

We wanted the victim of the opening to come across as a fairly average teenage girl, that there is nothing special about her. The reason we attempted this was due to the fact that there can only be one murder in the opening, and the killer would not be murdering a person because of one of their features, simply because they were them. The murderer is pestilent, he will kill anything he wants and he won't necessarily have a reason for this, which is why we wanted to girl to look nothing more than average. While she is being followed, she is looking very intimidated and genuinely fearing for her life; because she is a female we wanted to apply this as much as possible. Another sign that she was simply an average teenager; she did not have any means of defence and merely screamed for help while doing nothing to try and escape. Her clothing and her stance implies that she presents herself as a fragile teenager who is once again conveyed in her reaction to the text message she receives. We feel that we did this well and it carries along with the norms and stereotypes of modern day society.

The detective is fairly well dressed without being completely suited up. We feel that this represents detectives of many types for a few different reasons. We didn't give away too much about this character because it would give the audience something to infer over without lacking the knowledge that he was important both to the film and to society. While he is dressed smartly, he is not wearing a complete suit, his shirt is not tucked in and his top button undone. This shows that he is fairly casual about his job and we wanted to convey the idea of not all crime-fighters having to be carbon copies of the conventionally smartly-dressed ones. Each of them have something different, and there is no exception with this character. His pose also suggests that he has no intention of messing around. He is standing fairly strongly and wants to be different from his female partner.