Media Evalution Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There are six groups of demographics. These six groups are:

Group A	this is people in highly paid jobs e.g. lawyers, politicians, bank managers etc
Group B	this is people who are paid well but not as highly as the people in group A e.g. teachers and civil servants etc
Group C1	this includes people who have a certain skill e.g. junior managers, bank clerks and nurses
Group C2	this includes ‘blue collar’ workers and people who are skilled traders e.g. electricians, plumbers, gas technicians and carpenters
Group D	this includes manual workers e.g. drivers, builders and post office sorters
Group E	this includes people who have little to no income e.g. young people, elderly and the unemployed

The key character in our opening is a female character that walks down a road and finds a
dead body in an abandoned shack after following discarded clothes to the opening of the
shack. We did not clearly show the audience whether this character was the hero, the villain
or the victim of the film but the girl is meant to be the victim in the film. However, she wears a white top which symbolises her innocence and this could lead the audience to think that maybe she is indeed the victim of the story.

This character is the main character in our thriller opening. The main character in the opening is a female victim as she is targeted by however killed the girl lying in the shack and she is around 16-18 years old.




We represented age by showing clearly that the main character is a young adult/older teenager. Most people would be able to guess that she is around 16-18 years old by her style e.g. she is wearing clothes that teenagers/young adults would wear and her face when you get a close up of it.





We represented gender as both the dead person and the main character is female. We did this because we thought the opening would fit into conventions of the thriller genre and our opening idea if both the main character and the dead character was female as females are generally shown as the victims in thrillers and the males are usually shown as the antagonists and the protagonists in the thriller genre. We thought sticking to this convention would be the best thing for our thriller as the audience would sympathise with the victim better if the character was a girl.

We represented the victim by showing the victim finding the body and finding out that she is the killers main/next target. We also represented her by showing her in a white top as this helps symbolise her innocence in this opening.

You could compare our victim to Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones. You can compare them because they are both female victims and they both have been led to somewhere that might lead to their deaths. In The Lovely Bones Susie is led to her death by a family friend whereas our victim has been led to somewhere that might lead to her death by clothes and bloodied cloth. Both girls are young and can be considered innocent. Also they were both targeted in a way before their death/possible death. In a way Susie was targeted by her family friend and our victim was targeted by photos of her and her friends in the shack where she found the previous victim of the killer.