Evaluation Question 2 - Billie

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our media product represents certain social groups quite stereotypically, this is very common in thriller films because this genre wants to represent certain groups as weak or as the ‘hero’. Our film fully conforms to these stereotypes because we have represented young women as weak.

For example, all the protagonists in our film are women, this is because women tend to come across as more vulnerable than men. We had our protagonists mostly in a group until Emma walks in the opposite direction, this is to show that when women are on their own they are more likely to face an issue. This is what happened in our film, Emma was alone and got killed but the other three girls stayed in a group and were okay. We used a low angle, canted angle as a point of view shot when Emma has just been hurt, this puts her in a more vulnerable state than the other girls because she is looking up at them showing that they have some superiority over her.

The other character in our film is an unknown person, although we don’t know their gender people could assume that the character is a male because of our title sequence. This means that that the unknown charter also conforms to the norms of a superior male character in a thriller film. This character has all of the power in the film, it is common through thriller films for the male character to be the antagonist and be in power. This is shown when the character stabs Emma and they are stood above her as she falls.

Although, if this character was to be a female they would subvert the norms of women in thriller films because it is not very often that a woman is shown to have much power and superiority because they are usually shown as a damsel in distress.