Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Question 2 of Evaluation - "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

The two characters in mine and Austen’s opening to a thriller film are Austen and James. Austen is the victim and James is the menacing stalker/figure. The names are our own names, thus creating a very simple and easy to understand narrative because it increases the believability of the characters within our opening.

James is wearing a black coat with a very big collar to protect his identity. James and Austen both wear jeans and casual shoes which match todays fashion sense and shows modern day clothing.

Our thriller, ‘Death Watch’, represents and reinforces dominating males in today’s society. Several thriller films display male dominancy – take ‘Essex Boys’ for example, Jason and his apprentice are the two dominating males within the first few scenes of the film. This kind of male dominancy can be seen as wanting to commit such a crime as the stalker, James, does in ‘Death Watch’ – with decreasing activities for people of James’ age to do, young men can result to violence and crime as a past time, completely representative of contemporary Britain.

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