Evaluation Question 2-Frances

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There are many social groups represented in thrillers, example of these are:

• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Age
• Gender
• Ability/disability
• Social class

The social group we tried to represent in our thriller is white British, working class and all the characters in our opening were physically able. There is a strong contrast between the antagonist and the protagonist in my thriller opening. The protagonist is white British, straight and working class. The antagonist's mum is also white British, straight, around the age of forty and is of working class along with her daughter, the antagonist which is the character who attacks the young girl in our thriller is also white British, around the age of forty, straight and also of a working class background.

There is nothing unusual about the characters as you would see and meet people which fit into these social categories on a day to day basis which creates a sense of realism. The fact that the mother and daughter have a close bond and care deeply about each other is represented in the part where the daughter is warning her mother about her new boyfriend telling her that there's something not quite right about him, this clearly shows that she cares a lot for the safety and happiness of her mother.

The character of the paedophile is represented as a sneaky, untrustworthy type of person by the way he acts ands the things he does. These characteristics are usually what we would stereotype to be associated with the way paedophiles behave. The character of the mums boyfriend comes across as very smug as he hasn't been caught listening in on the daughter and her mums conversation, also at the end of my thriller opening there is a medium close-up of the antagonists face. In this close-up he appears to be slightly smiling to himself which suggests that he is feeling pleased with himself about what he has just done.

 The scene where the mother and her daughter are having a conversation about the mums new boyfriend you see him walking past them talking, then the next shot is of him eavesdropping into the conversation which backs up my idea of him being sneaky as the mother and daughter fail to notice he is listening to them. The scene where he is sitting in his car, following her, then attacking her are all done with the camera set so we see all of this from his point of view. In each scene of him doing these things he is not noticed by the daughter which shows that he is good at hiding and staying quiet so he is not seen or heard. This suggests how he could be used to doing these kinds of attacks on many an occasion. Throughout the thriller opening it is obvious that the antagonist has the bigger power role by the camera shots and the scene where he hits the young girl over the head with the stick shows how he has dominance over her as one he has attacked her he could make her do anything he wants with her or to her.


I stereotyped what most people would associate to a sixteen year old girl of this generation; blonde, attractive, heavily made up and wanting to go out for social events with her friends. When we see the protagonist doing her makeup and getting ready to go out its obvious that she cares a lot about how she looks and dresses which again links to the way teenage girls in this generation feel about themselves. The outfit that the protagonist wears gives off a sense of realism as a short skirt and fur coat could be something a teenage girl might wear if she goes out for the night with friends.