Our media product represents particular social groups in the following ways: 1) It subverts gender conventions in thrillers by having a strong female protagonist instead of a victim, challenging stereotypes of women in the genre. 2) The male characters take a backseat to focus on the struggles and safety of the female leads, portraying women as stronger than men. 3) All the characters are teenagers to reflect the target audience and create tension by putting people their age in danger.

1. Q2.HOW DOES OUR MEDIA
PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR
SOCIAL GROUPS?

2. Presentation of Gender
■ We wanted to subvert the conventions associated with the
thriller genre in terms of the way gender is presented in our
film. Ultimately we made the decision when planning our film
to include a female protagonist we wanted to challenge the
conventions and stereotypes generally associated with female
characters within the thriller genre as they are often seen a the
victim or barely represented or accurate presentation is
limited throughout the thriller genre.
■ This is similar for our presentation of men in our film as the
main focus of our film is on the struggles and the safety of the
female main protagonists the male characters are much more
minor character in the film opening as a whole.This defies the
convention of the thriller genre as this ultimately portrays
women as stronger and more resourceful and ultimately
luckier than their male counterparts.

3. Representation of age
■ Our main protagonist and every character
presented in our film where all teenagers, we
choose to use teenagers as we wanted to reflect
our target audience in our film. As they would be
reflected in the film by character who are like
them or they can relate to and the fact they are in
danger would ultimately create tension between
our target audience. Following the convention of
the psychological thriller genre by making the
setting and costume of the character as realistic
and “normal” as possible to focus more on the
realism of the situation of the characters.

4. How did we want our target audience to
view our film
We wanted our target audience to challenge their initial
perception of the main characters through their appearance
and the way they act.We also wanted to make our film
reflect our audience so we dressed our main protagonist in a
stereotypical way so the majority of our audience would feel
that the characters accurately present them as a social
group.