This document summarizes how the filmmakers represent the main character and another character through mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing, and music in their psychological thriller film. The main character is a wild and rebellious teenager, represented as vulnerable, weak and scared through close-ups, quick editing, and tense music. Her bedroom and isolated outdoor locations also portray her personality. The other character is portrayed as scary and creepy through close-ups, long shots, boom sounds, and darker music to build tension as she approaches the main character.

1. Question 2:
How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
Judy Ibelgauptiene
Katia Martins
Leticia Silva
Noor Naoum

2. What social group does your main
character represent and why?
Our main character represents teenagers and
young adults who are wild and rebellious.
We decided to choose this social group because
usually psychological thrillers aren’t based on
wild and rebellious teenagers so we wanted to
be different and introduce different social
groups into the psychological thriller genre.

3. How do you represent your character
through Mise-en-scene?
Costume, makeup and props:
-The pictures in the
beginning of the best-
friends helps to enhance
the understanding of who
the characters are. It
introduces them so that
the opening sequence
makes more sense.
-The towel and the
messy room
represents her
rebellious and
careless personality.
-The mirror is a cliché
prop that is used in
psychological movies to
reflect the psychological
problem that only the
character can see. Like in
Kathryn when she is
putting on her lipstick.
-Her outfit is mostly
black to help with her
characterisation and
fit with her
personality. It also
establishes the idea
that she has
psychological
problem.
-The dead best-friend’s
outfit is modern but
torn up and dusty to
show that she is dead
and she is the contrast
to the character
Kathryn. This is
challenged due to it not
being cliché.
The bag is Kathryn’s
personal belonging
that she grabs first
as a sense of
comfortable in order
to feel safe and
away from her dead
‘Best-friend’.

4. Facial Expressions and Body language:
Kathryns body language
suggests that she is vulnerable
when she sees her dead
bestfriend for the first time.
Kathryns facial expression and
body language show that she is
scared and she is holding onto
her bag as a sign of comfort.
Kates body language is
very serious as if to show
the audience that she is
after Kathryn .
We can tell that Kathryn
is beginning to panic
through her facial
expression.
Kathryns body language
shows that she is in a hurry
as she is trying to escape
from Kate (her dead
bestfriend) who is after her.
Kathryns facial expression
shows that she is
becoming scared about
the fact that she can see
her dead bestfriend.

5. Locations:
Her bedroom portrays her wild side showing
that she is in her teens. The room is
disheveled which suggests that she is an
irresponsible teenager.
We filmed the outdoor scene to depict the
freedom and rebelliousness of the main
character. We also challenged the
stereotype of a person with a
psychological issue being isolated in a
room where they feel comfort.
We filmed in a green area which
portrayed Kathryn’s isolation because it
is an abandoned area.

6. How do you represent your character
through the camera shots and editing?
Our main character is represented as vulnerable, weak and scared through the camera
shots and editing.
She is represented as vulnerable through close ups of her face when something drastic
happens. We tried to use a lot of close ups to show her expressions and display her
vulnerability.
We also tried to show her as weak and scared through quick paced editing to create
tension, so the audience could put themselves in the main characters shoes and feel
how she does.

7. At the end of our opening sequence we used a 360 shot to show the main character as isolated and vulnerable.
(Kathryn’s reaction during her 360 spin.
Our other character was represented as scary and creepy through camera shots such as close ups and long
shots to show the whole character along with her facial expressions and costume playing a big
part.
(Close up of Kate’s face) (Mid shot of Kate) (Long shot of Kate)
Through editing she was shown for a few seconds to build tension and create fear amongst the audience. As we
tried to use a quick pace which was parallel to the music as she got closer to scare the audience. We tried to
show her for fewer seconds to represent her as scary.

8. How do you represent your character
through the music?
Through the music our main character is represented as a wild child/teenager at the
beginning of the scene as she is listening to diegetic music.
However after that we used calm incidental music to represent her as innocent and
calm. When the girl leaves the house the mood of the music changes and it turns
more mysterious which is how she is represented as you want to know where she is
going.
When the other character appears across the road from her the music begins to get
louder which represents the characters tension and fear.
Towards the end the music used is really tense and scary which represents how scared
the main character is.
The other character is represented as scary and creepy through the music as the
sound effects she is given are boom sounds which are loud and contrast against the
score music. As she appears more the music gets louder and darker. Which represents
her dark character.