AS Evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My group wanted to use minimal characters so we use Noah as the male victim, Lucy as the female victim and Michael as the killer. I showed Noah’s character as a brave and masculine male which is stereotypical to the thriller genre. I chose to include this so that the audience would feel as if no one is safe from the killer. The second male character that I used was the killer himself he needed to come across to the audience as a powerful, mysterious and terrifying. I used a male actor for the role of the killer, as in thrillers it is conventional for the killer to be a man. The final character was Lucy as the female victim; I included her because in nearly all thrillers a female victim is stereotypically used. In our thriller we chose not to represent gender in a stereotypical way, we did this as the main victim throughout the thriller was male. I think that my characters will appeal to my target audience because they are of a similar age, this means that my audience will be able to relate to the characters which will make the danger to the characters more real.