This document summarizes the representations of characters in a thriller film project. It describes the stalker character as similar to Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, in that he is a mentally ill male who targets women. The victim is a 16-year-old student living alone who is vulnerable due to her isolated environment and tight clothing, similar to Marion Crane in Psycho. These character representations follow common thriller tropes and stereotypes to appeal to the target youth audience.

2.  Representations are important. They benefit
the audience and the audience will be able to
understand the rationale and the acts of
certain characters within a thriller.
Furthermore, the understand of the audience
towards the narrative plot will be helped by
the representation.

3.  In my group we followed the conventional
social groups within thriller movies by using
the stereotypical characters in which our
audience would expect and characters that
would be like our audience typical girl, which
was who we were trying to target.

4.  Our stalker is similar to the character
Patrick Bateman who was played by
Christian Bale in the movie ‘American
Psycho’.

5. Our antagonist is similar to the character
Patrick Bateman from the film ‘American
Psycho’. Just like our character he is a male
who is diagnosed with a mental illness and he
targets, e.g. prostitutes and everyday women.

6. Our antagonist is a man whose identity, age
and ethnicity is unknown. So far he has not
been revealed to have any previous
relationship towards the victim. The clothes
in which the antagonist wears is all
black, that normally represents a dark
presence.
The character represents our social group
because just like him, there are psychotic
people out there and a situation like this is
more than likely to occur.

7.  Our victim is similar to the character Marion
Crane in the film ‘Psycho’, who was played
by Janet Leigh.

8. Our female victim is similar to the character
Marion Crane from the thriller ‘Psycho’.
Just like our character, Marion crane is young
and attractive and due to her being in a
isolated room, this made her vulnerable just
like our character.

9. Our victim is a 16 year old sixth form
student, who lives by herself. The clothes in
which she is wearing, e.g. Skinny Jeans, would
make it harder for her to run away from the
villain, so this meant that she was vulnerable.
Due to her appearance, the audience would be
scared for the character and due to her young
age and attractive posture, it would attract
the male audience, in which we are trying to
attract.

10. Our characters representations, the activities
in which they carry out and the themes of
product, represents a youthful social group.