Friday, 6 May 2011

How does your media product represent particular social groups?



After choosing the genre, physiological thriller, due to the fact that it incorporates all the traditional traits of a thriller and additionally incorporates the mystery and drama that we wanted to portray. Due to this we stuck to traditional stereotypes as this then helped the audience to understand the dangers of the man and the vulnerability of the girls.

When you ask a group of people about vulnerability issues generally they will first think about white, young females. We decided that we would uphold this traditional stereotype and portray the young girls are weak and vulnerable. This enabled the audience to feel the fear, and unhappiness that the girls experience, by understanding the fact that they are innocent and therefore defenseless.

The stalker was a white male, again upholding the stereotype that men are stronger and have more control, especially over woman. However we chose a white male rather than a black male to contrast to the negative stereotype about them, as this then shows that both have the same controlling powers over woman. This is also an everyday stereotype shown in many different aspects of history we decided to include this as it helps the piece to immediately connect with the audience and for them to understand the dangers and the main narrative of the piece.


Both these stereotypes showed in our piece show the negative representations of people, due to his they help our genre as in a thriller you need to show fear, we did this by including images of the man, in dark clothes as this effect with the hoodie (a item of clothing that has seen many bans due to the fact that the identity is concealed within the hood, as this picture shows.)

This clothing choice helps to cast a shadow onto the man’s face and thus hides the man’s features creating a mysterious effect to the audience, and enables them to wonder who he is and what is going to happen, this again relates back to our genre it also helps to identify with everyday stereotypes that our targeted audience would be aware about and see in their daily lives. The use of all his dark clothing again emphasises the danger he is to the two girls.

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