How does your media product represent

particular social groups?

Representations are important. They benefit the audience and the audience will be able to understand the rationale and the acts of certain characters within a thriller. Furthermore, the understand of the audience towards the narrative plot will be helped by the representation.

Representation: Why are they important?

In my group we followed the conventional social groups within thriller movies by using the stereotypical characters in which our audience would expect and characters that would be like our audience typical girl, which was who we were trying to target.

Representation of Social Groups

Our stalker is similar to the character Patrick Bateman who was played by Christian Bale in the movie ‘American Psycho’.

Comparison: Our Antagonist

Our antagonist is similar to the character Patrick Bateman from the film ‘American Psycho’. Just like our character he is a male who is diagnosed with a mental illness and he targets, e.g. prostitutes and everyday women.

Comparison: Our Antagonist

Our antagonist is a man whose identity, age and ethnicity is unknown. So far he has not been revealed to have any previous relationship towards the victim. The clothes in which the antagonist wears is all black, that normally represents a dark presence.

The character represents our social group because just like him, there are psychotic people out there and a situation like this is more than likely to occur.

Antagonist Within Thriller

Our victim is similar to the character Marion Crane in the film ‘Psycho’, who was played by Janet Leigh.

Comparison: Our Female Victim

Our female victim is similar to the character Marion Crane from the thriller ‘Psycho’.

Just like our character, Marion crane is young and attractive and due to her being in a isolated room, this made her vulnerable just like our character.

Comparison: Our Female Victim

Our victim is a 16 year old sixth form student, who lives by herself. The clothes in which she is wearing, e.g. Skinny Jeans, would make it harder for her to run away from the villain, so this meant that she was vulnerable.

Due to her appearance, the audience would be scared for the character and due to her young age and attractive posture, it would attract the male audience, in which we are trying to attract.

Victim Within Thriller

Our characters representations, the activities in which they carry out and the themes of product, represents a youthful social group.

Conclusion