The Evaluation: Part 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main antagonist is male. In my thriller opening, he is portrayed as a serial kidnapper/murderer; this is a typical representation of male antagonists in thriller films. If you look at the image to the left, there are some similarities between the two characters. One similarity is that it is not clear on who the person is. Thrillers do this a lot so not to give too much away and keep a mystery in the atmosphere. However, one major difference we have compared to other thriller films, is that our male antagonist is not a huge intimidating figure. Our antagonist is quite small. This helps us move away from the current trends of thrillers, as we try to make our film as unique as possible so that it can compete and present a strong challenge against other thrillers. We wanted to have someone different to the others...

Initially we wanted to represent an older social group, around the ages of 30-50. however, we believed that this would make the film a bit unoriginal and too familiar. The character in the film doesn't necessarily represent any specific social group. We wanted to create a different character; an "unknown" character. Someone that no one can no nothing about, someone who is unpredictable. This way, it will have a more psychological impact upon the audience.