How does your media product represent particular social groups?
When planning and creating our thriller Emily and I had an idea of basing our thriller around crime and teenagers being involved. The way in which we kept this theme was by having a male teenager committing the crime and a female teenager being a victim to a crime. Both of these are rather typical stereotypes that have been created by society.
Another way in which we placed emphasis on this was through the use of props and clothing. Emily's character was dressed in a very basic, everyday outfit and portrayed a 'damson in distress', a typical role carried out by females in other films and older generation made films. Also, the way in which Emily carried out this role, of carrying out a normal role of walking her dog before meeting a friend places the emphasis of a normal teenage girl. The use of a female creates a sense of sympathy from the audience as women are often viewed as vulnerable.
Harry's character, the male antagonist, is portrayed as a heartless, aggressive character. The way in which this is done is through his dark clothing, his over bearing character stance and aggressive nature towards Emily's character. A male teenager committing a crime is another stereotype we decided to portray in our opening sequence.
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