Evaluation Ouestions - Question 2 (How does your media product represent particlar social groups?)

Our film represents late teens which are from both genders, male (attacker) and female (prey). We wanted the audience to feel the innocence of the female and we captured this by having a close up of the girl. We made her add to the innocence by asking her to wear a pink jumper which symbolises a guilty, feminism and gentle emotions.

This actually works well with normal thriller films because women/girls tend to be those innocent characters that end up being attacked. I believe the group and I worked well in trying to achieve this view of the innocent girl, we also added glasses to the look which gives once again some type of symbolism of a guilty person. (Jenessa Tawaih's Costume)

With class we wanted to make the audience believe that she is a Working class child but at the higher side of Working class people. I say this because we made her walk through the path way with a headset and made her play around with her blackberry, meaning she has money to buy a few luxury things. This is also aimed at young adults/teenagers as they are all familiar with the gadgets involved and they are also familiar with today’s fancy clothing trends, meaning the targeted audience would be able to relate to the film really well.

As for the male attacker as a group we wanted to use the normal thriller convention of making him wear all black, so he definitely fits in to what the audience believes an attacker looks like. We also made the attacker seem like he is a type of ‘druggy’ as he had a distinctive itch whiles he walks, as if he was need of something and in this case he was in need of the innocent girl. The colour of both actors’ clothes was also made to show the stereotypical male dominance over females. The black colour of the male was to show a mysterious, overpowering and evil. This type of clothing was used for many thrillers for example ‘Dracula’- a mysterious and evil character.

The social group that matched with Abiola Fatusin's Character (Attacker/Stalker) is a working class teenager. We as a group wanted to get the affect of troubled youth that are involved in gang culture, for example the actors from 'Kidulthood'. They had the stereotypical look of a young teenage gang member, which was similar to the Attacker/Stalker clothing but we wanted Abiola to seem more of an attacker rather than a 'Yob'.