The document discusses how a media product represents social groups. It summarizes that the opening scene implies a death without actually showing it to set a dark tone. It includes children to add shock value and vulnerability, using a child in a threatening situation. It represents the males as threats to children but did not include women, feeling a child offered a more vulnerable role. It aims to portray the insecurity and fear of being in scary situations as a child through concealing threats until the end to build tension.

1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

2. In the opening of our Thriller no actual death takes place, a death is implied by the body bag, yet Anthony Thatcher is very much alive. However the introduction of a scene involving a situation that is a representation of murder or death we felt would be effective enough to give the film a opening that had sufficient emotional impact on the audience without going straight into the development of deaths and survivors as this is to come later in the film and the opening is rightly so, a introduction to this, setting a dark tone with implications of menace and the loss of life.

3. Collectively we agreed the inclusion of children would give us something to set our film apart. A child’s fate can bring a greater response out of the audience as it adds shock value. Putting a child in a grave situation presents more vulnerability about the character and in turn giving the villainous figure a scarier appeal. We wanted the body bag figure (Anthony Thatcher) to appear wounded but still threatening and presenting a danger.

4. We did not include women in our sequence due to the fact we feel the child offered the vulnerable role that a woman might usually portray (e.g. silence of the lambs) and for the figure to be more imposing we wanted it to be a physically stern and intimidating presence that we felt a man offered better than a woman. We represented the two males featured as a threat to the children (albeit in different ways), showing the fear factor associated with the divide between childhood and adulthood.

5. Roach is exposed into a situation he is fearful of, the same can be said about the young boy in sixth sense although developments are very much different it is still a portrayal of the insecurity of youngsters and dealing with scary or threatening situations In the film Phone Booth Kiefer Sutherland’s (right) character isn't revealed until the last few minutes of the film (concealment) this is the main focus of the film, and despite this not being the case in Perception the element on concealment is still very much in use regarding the figure (left) in the car, his identity is not revealed leaving the audience captivated and intrigued to find out who he is and what role he has to play

6. We wanted to represent the idea of vulnerability in our film, with regards to Roach as a child. We also felt the need to convey a sense of abnormal and mysterious, this would add to a build up of tension and give a greater feeling of unease to the audience. The setting we used for abandoned and wanted it to represent a threatening maze in which danger lurked and Roach couldn’t escape.