Evaluation As Media

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

2. Gender
Femininity:
In our thriller we wanted to challenge
stereotypes by using a women as our main
deviant character. Usually in thriller
productions our society would assume the
male to be the violent, aggressive character.
This is due to women being stereotyped the
dumber and weaker sex. However, we wanted
to play against the generic archetype of a
male villain – hence using a women who knew
what she was doing and wasn’t afraid to be
violent. I like that Maria doesn’t allow a man
to tell her what to do and isn’t bothered by
typical social trends such as marriage. Her
story, which we see in the flashbacks makes
us more sympathetic towards her. I am unsure
Relates to Thelma and
Louise.
This film also challenges the
misogynistic view of females
in thrillers. Thelma and
Louise like our character
Maria show the changing of
attitude of the way females
are presented. All of these women are strong and
independent. We took inspiration from this film and based
Marias attitude the same way Thelma and Louise’s are
portrayed.
if we are more sympathetic due to the fact she is
female as we don’t seem to be as bothered when she
tortures ‘The Man’ despite being taught violence is
wrong in any given situation.

3. Masculinity:
Again by making the female the
dominant character, this makes the male
vulnerable which you don’t tend to see
in many media productions. However,
in the flashbacks we see The Man
aggressively wiping blood of Maria’s
face. This is similar to Kill Bill 1, where
we typically see the male being
aggressive to the female.
By The Man feeling emasculated by
Maria being such a strong character, it
denies all generic ideas of the male
being the stronger sex.
Bill
dominating
the bride in
Tarintino’s
‘Kill Bill Vol.
1’.
Relation to Norman Bates from ‘Psycho’.
This character is
similar to The Man as
they both our
portrayed as normal
people when looking
at them but secretly
have a psychopathic
side to them. You
could also argue Maria
is similar to this too.

4. Sexual ambiguity:
Our thriller doesn’t
represent gender equally.
Our production portrays
this very interestingly as
we constantly see the
power swap between each
gender throughout our
opening rather then having
one dominant character to
challenge stereotypes.
However, we see more
of our deviant femme
fetalle character Maria
making The Man
defenceless. This
challenges usual classic
conventions of thriller
victims.
Ethnicity
Both of our characters our
white, British. This is purely
because all member in our
group were white, British.
Addicted
The main cast of this
African-American thriller
are Black due to all being
related to the main
character Zoe. This
creates realism between
the family members.
However, including other
ethnic members of cast
may attract a larger
audience.
anything as it isn’t
linked in with the plot.
However, I understand
the use of certain
ethnicities in some films
due to the context. For
example the main
characters in ‘12 years a
slave’ our African
America due to the plot
being based on
discrimination against
blacks in the 18th
century.
Is it relevant?
I don’t believe the ethnicity of the cast has any
relevance to the outcome of our thriller
opening. If we had of casted someone with a
different ethnicity it wouldn’t of effected

5. The representation of Youth
Our film included a Male and Female aged roughly between 17-20. This linked to
our target audience as it makes the production more relatable to people of that
age. The fear we see in the young women’s face whilst witnessing the flashbacks
our similar to how the current youth may feel in contemporary Britain when in
vulnerable situations like walking home in the dark. This could be because in todays
society the youth have grown up able to here about these awful situations on social
media and TV where people may have been attacked, raped or murdered in
vulnerable situations. This links in with our thriller conventions of the unknown,
who should we trust and allows the audience to try and connect the relationship
between the two characters.