How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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Emma Phillips
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Within our thriller, we aimed to represent people of a similar age to ourselves, on a level that everyone can relate too. By using a theme that is very popular within other types of the media at the moment, our thriller was easily relatable by people who live a similar life to ourselves. The idea of skipping school, represented victim as our female lead (Aimee Hunt) wearing a school uniform, to illustrate naivety and innocence, and drinking alcohol is activity that almost every teenager at our age takes part in at some point in their teenage life, raising the key moral we hoped for when planning our filming; the danger of spiking drinks. Being played by a female, the victim also agrees with typical conventions to thrillers. Not only this however, but we represented her as a weaker character, often doing what he said and letting Kieran influence her in many ways. We chose Aimee to play this vital part as we believed she had the key acting skills needed in order to make our thriller professional, as well as having all the key features regarding appearance in order to make it convincing; ranging from having a smaller physique to add to the idea of vulnerability and short skirts, typical to other girls of the same age. Portraying the victim as innocent was of grave importance to us, and we decided to portray this through using high angle shots looking down on her, as well as a detailed diary accounted voice over in order to let the audience relate to her as she talks about her ordeal. This was almost reflected completely when filming the perpetrator, as we dressed him in dark colours and used low angle shots to show his power.
We chose actors of the same age as ourselves, firstly because they were easy to get hold of and more importantly to make our thriller more appealing and professional looking to the audience it was aimed at, a BBFC rating of 15. Our male lead and suspected rapist, Kieran Gabbitus, was represented at first as unidentifiable as the shots of him avoided contact with his face.
In these particular shots, the culprits face remains unshown, instead you can only see the hands; and this could be anybody. The dark clothing however identifies the person in the shot as being “bad”.
This added, also, to the overall tension gained from watching our thriller, as well as making the audience sympathise with the victim as to what happens later on. His costume was generally realistic to that of any other teenager. The dark colour of his clothing (black trousers and a black leather coat), follow typical conventions of thriller characters; with the culprit normally wearing dark colours to put forward his danger as a person.
Whilst filming, we aimed to ensure that when filming Kieran, we used a number of high-angled shots looking down towards Aimee, in order to show dominance. This was reflected when filming Aimee as we used low-angle shots to create the different affect, showing that she was beneath Kieran’s social power.
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