Evaluation Part 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In many thrillers created the director may use allot of stereotypes. For example using the 'dumb blonde' or the 'scary hoody of doom'. Within our film there are no such stereotypes, there are no 'hoodys of doom' and our main actress does not have blonde hair. As for representation there is always something to say. In many thrillers characters represent different groups like the 'working class' or a certain age group. Our film may represent a few of them groups but does not represent all of them as we only have 2 characters. Our main actor is put across as some kind of a murderer, so in terms of gender this could portray males as being more violent compared to females. To continue on gender our actress may be represent that women are innocent as she has done nothing wrong but yet is being followed and killed.

In the image above you can clearly see that our actress does not have blonde hair and our actor show behind her is not wearing a hood. Sexuality along with class and ethnic minorities are not being represented here as none of them are totally clear. We do not know the actors sexuality at this point, we could guess the male actor is straight as he is chasing a female actor but that can easily be misinterpreted.  Within the film we went for a youthful age of around early twenties but as we did not have any actors around those ages we used actors that were between 16 and 18. Using young individuals such as our selves we may be portraying our age group as violent and stupid. Age is not portrayed in a positive way for this part of the film but if we created the rest age would not be represented negatively.