How does your media product represent particular social group?
- 1. Q.2. How does your media product represent particular social group?In our opening there only one of the characters is shown and his identity is hidden from the audience. Latter on in the movie audience discovers other character which belongs to particular social groups.
- 2. Male/Female conflictIn our thriller both the hero and the villain are males. In Playing God men are presented as stronger and more powerful. We decided to do that as during our audience research we found out that audience prefer them to be male characters. Also in all of the thrillers we’ve been analysing main characters were always male. As the movie progresses and more characters are killed audience notice that most of them are female. This is because in our society women are always taken as the vulnerable and helpless characters which have to be saved by a man. In our thriller females are presented as the weaker and easier target to kill.
- 3. StereotypesOur main characters are two quite young men. One of them is a science showed in the opening sequence. He discovers a gene of evil and inject is to other men. Their actions which the audience follows during the movie show them as a maniac which cares only about power and control. Also the “perfect killer” is a huge, strong man who’s not very smart. He is an example of a stereotype of kinds of people who cares only about power and strength and not about intelligence.
- 4. Hero/VillainIn other way our thriller disagree with stereotype of scientist. Usually they are seem as a good and helpful people who use their knowledge to helps discovering facts which are to help society. In out thriller we represent our scientist as an evil person who uses his knowledge to achieve his goals and power. In our movie the main reason for the problem is this scientist who discovers gene of evil and inject in to someone other and create “perfect killer”. As the movie progresses we found out that the person we his actually going to stop the killer is his creator the scientist. In thrillers it’s highly unlikely that the hero and the villain is the same person. It also disagree with the stereotype that the bad person stays bad and hero is always the greatest character within the movie.