Evaluation: Question 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representations:

The representations of characters are important as they give the audience a better understanding of who they are and their role within the film. Also the audience would know what to expect from the characters during the thriller if they stick to stereotypes. Representations are further important because they provide guidelines of what characters will be like in the film.

Through my research I have found out that classic thriller characters involve a male antagonist, a female victim and other helpless victims. An example from my thriller would be a typical stereotype of the male antagonist wearing all black which would create tension for the audience as it doesn’t reveal much about his character.  However, the victims were wearing light coloured clothing to show that they’re innocent and pure compared to him. Some of the films I researched  were ’Scream’ ,  ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ and ‘ I know what you did last summer’ . They helped me represent social groups because I found out how typical victims and antagonist were being presented. For example in scream the antagonist is never revealed to the audience as he always wears full black clothing which creates tension and mystery, and in ‘ I know what you did last summer ‘’ the victims here are young, youthful  and innocent characters.

My thriller represents particular social groups because of things like age, themes and stereotypes. For example all the characters were within the age groups of 16 – 18 years which was also the age groups of our target audience and the certificate we gave to our film. Our themes involved love, torture, friendship and death. These themes were more likely to be better understood by the age groups that were portrayed as the audience could relate to friendship and love.

 My media product representing particular social groups:

 -Name: Jack

- Character role: ‘’Antagonist’’

- Age: 18

- Gender stereotype of role: male teenager, therefore his characteristics are immature and spontaneous which is something that is stereotypical of his age and gender

- Costume: all black jumper and bottoms to reflect evil characteristics within the film

- Hair and makeup: normal hair

- Body language and facial expression: crouched back to cause suspicion amongst the audience

-Body language - jumpy, crazy etc.

- Facial expression - constantly slightly smirking

- Represented as a victim who doesn’t care about anything that is going on around him. All fun and games

- Role within the narrative: Turns up late to the meeting point and scares everyone.

Erdem played the character Jack ‘’ antagonist’’ which turns up late to the media production filming and scares the other characters within the thriller. He portrayed the immature behaviour when he scares the other members which shoes that he doesn’t care about anything that’s going on and doesn’t take it seriously which shows that you could expect anything from him which makes the audience alert every time he’s on the scene. In addition the typical stereotype of the male antagonist was presented by Erdem when he first enters the scene wearing all black which automatically makes the audience think that he’s the antagonist.

-Name: Sam

-Character role: Nerd Age: 17

- Gender stereotype of role: typical male nerd into technology and getting work done

- Costume: chinos (tack ups) cheeked shirt

-Hair and makeup: neat hair, combed

- Body language and facial expression:

-Body language - stiff posture to show he is nervous

- Facial expression - straight face

 -Represented as a typical nerd who is focused on his studies and seen as an easy target

-Role within the narrative: the group make fun of him whilst he records the forest. Sam is the reason the group split up as he ran away

Khaled played the role of Sam the ‘nerd’ which is different from the other members of the group and doesn’t have a close relationship with them. He wants to get the work done quickly then trips over and gets laughed at by the other members. He then runs of and gets lost. Khaled portrayed a typical nerd by the way his costume was with a cheeked bright shirt with a jumper on top. Also, he kept playing around with the camera trying to investigate new stuff around him. This made the audience realise him more from the other characters as he was different to everyone and didn’t want to be there with them. He also seemed like an easy target as he got bullied by everyone which is shown to the audience as a typical victim in a thriller.