How does your media product represent particular social groups?

QUESTION 2

FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THRILLERS

In the silence of the lambs, the female character is being portrayed as weaker than the male.

In psycho, the female character is the victim.

Our main character is a girl and she plays the victim, this is stereotypical as women are seen as weak and vulnerable. We mainly did this for the role as we thought the audience would be drawn to a female character more. Though, we

also wanted to have a female being the lead as in thrillers, the protagonist is usually male. The other character in our thrillers gender remains anonymous, the actor was female, but the point was to let the audience question the identity

of the other character.

OUR THRILER

The location of our thriller is a park. One of the reasons we chose this are is because it can appeal to most audiences as

most people would have been to a park so they would be able to relate to the setting.

LOCATION

The character in o thriller is hinted to have mental health issues, mostly all villains in thrillers are portrayed to have something mentally wring with them. E.g. the serial killer

in seven is a sociopath.

In our thriller we also have mental illness portrayed in a negative way to appeal to audiences.

MENTAL HEALTH IN THRILLERS

We want our target audience to be:• Teenagers• Students

• Anyone that enjoys thriller films

TARGET AUDIENCE