Kieran, as a teenager, fits stereotypes of being eccentric and dangerous. The film represents social groups through its choice of weapon, setting, and protagonists in non-conventional ways compared to typical crime movies. Stereotypes of gender, class and race are both represented and subverted.

1. 2) How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• People normally at Kieran age group • We did not show the blood from the victims
(teenager) are stereotypical known to be so the audience doesn’t know how serious
eccentric and dangerous so it is therefore the crime was or whether the victim just
less of a surprise that he is attacking fainted out of shock.
someone.
• The scene of the murdering would not
• A knife is also commonly used as a typical normally be in someone's home but in an
weapon as it is easier to obtain than a gun alley way or basement etc
etc for example ‘kill Bill’.
• The protagonist is middle class which is
• Men are stereotypically known for being the unconventional as the protagonist in this
antagonist in many movies. situation would be a working class person.
• Conventionally white British males are the • Stereotypically black people are seen the be
antagonists in films e.g. Die Hard(British more aggressive and violence than any other
actor played Hans) race.