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Thursday 14 February 2013

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


In our media product, the only social group that is represented is male adults. The character does not appear to be particularly wealthy and appears to be a standard, office–working kind of man. The one character shown in the opening of the thriller is an adult male and he is shown to be quite lonely and in trouble. We didn’t plan to be conveying the adult male group in any particular way and he appears to a very standard person. In many thrillers a lone male character is often portrayed as a hero, like in Die Hard. The character, John McClane is considered to be a hero and he is shown as quite a hard, gritty character who performs many heroics throughout the film.



Our character is also shown as the victim in the opening of our thriller. At the end of the opening a scream is heard from the character and it is presumed he is a victim of a murder. In the film Kill Bill, the main character, The Bride, appears to have been murdered right at the start of the film. This then plays a key role in the rest of the film.
The character has not been represented in any particular way in the opening of the thriller. Not much has been shown on the character in the opening of the thriller so there has not been any focus on particular characteristics. However, the props and lighting in the opening make the character seem to be very lonely and quite a dark character. This would impact on people’s opinions of this character because he is only ever shown in that way. The costume for this character is a simple costume. It presents the character as a normal man who has nothing special about him.   

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