How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
QUESTION 2
FEMALE CHARACTERS IN
THRILLERS
In the silence of the lambs,
the female character is being
portrayed as weaker than the
male.
In psycho, the female
character is the
victim.
Our main character is a girl and she plays the victim, this is stereotypical as
women are seen as weak and vulnerable. We mainly did this for the role as we
thought the audience would be drawn to a female character more. Though, we
also wanted to have a female being the lead as in thrillers, the protagonist is
usually male. The other character in our thrillers gender remains anonymous,
the actor was female, but the point was to let the audience question the
identity of the other character.
OUR THRILER
The location of our thriller is a park. One of the reasons we chose this are is
because it can appeal to most audiences as most people would have been to a
park so they would be able to relate to the setting.
LOCATION
We want our target audience to be:
• Teenagers
• Students
• Anyone that enjoys thriller films
TARGET AUDIENCE