Q2: How does your media product represent social groups?

Gender
In my thriller I have represented male characters strong and dominant over female characters. While on the other hand female characters are more weak and dominated over by men, and all the female character got to do is play a part in a love story. This reinforces thriller archetype of male characters being stronger than female, an example to men being stronger than women is from the Inglorious Bastards near the end of the movie at the theatre screening scene, Mlanie challenges stereotypes by not accepting Daniels love and also she shoots him, but it reinforces stereotypes in the next shot where Daniel still has the power to pull a gun out and shoot Mlanie, this scene challenges stereotypes in various ways but the strength of a men is reinforced as more dominant.

Age
In my thriller we have used teenage actors in the age 16 and 17, and we were representing teenagers in two different perspective. One was to do with the couple, they were represented as sensible, lively and romantic, they were relying on each other. And because they were relying on one another they get into trouble the moment they separated. And the other one was to do with the stalker, he was represented in a binary opposition to the couple. Violent and aggressive, which in most cases would reinforce archetypes of male characters of thriller films, such as Bill or Bud from Kill Bill vol.2 or Anton from No Country for Old Men.

Ethnicity
In my thriller we have only used white British male and female actors, and I; the cinematogropher who is a white Eastern European. We did not marginalised ethnicity groups, but rather because there are very few ethnic minorities at our school. But even so this can be still linked in with other independent British films where they used white British actors as main characters, for example, Broken and The Grind.