This document discusses how the media product represents different social groups through its main characters of Sally Blunt and the villains. Sally Blunt is portrayed as a female ex-FBI agent, challenging thriller conventions of male heroes. Her plain black clothing and tied back hair maintain a practical look. Clues in her bag establish her backstory without dialogue. The villains are a masked group wearing dark clothing to blend in. Their confident manner and slow movements make them seem threatening and ensure Sally cannot escape.

1. How Does Your Media
Product Represent
Different Social Group
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Age ranges (Child, adolescent, adult, elderly)
Gender (Male/Female)
Race/Nationality (English, Spanish)
Religion (Christian, Jewish, ect.)
Villains/Protagonist (Which we used in our own
production)
Different social groups

3. Sally Blunt

4. We used a female role for our main character due to our questionnaire results.
This challenges the Thriller codes and conventions and shows originality in our
production, due to main roles and hero's in thrillers being mostly males for
example, James Bond, Bourne Identity and Dwight from Sin City. Our inspiration
came from Kill Bill who is a strong independent role.
We made our character have no dialogue and this creates mystery and
let the audience concentrate on her actions and facial expression's
rather than what she might say. At first the audience may think that
Sally is the victim but due to her actions it shows that she is skilled and
has a past of being an agent. Examples of this include her knowledge of
hiding and looking for danger, jumping over obstacle's. Also what's
inside the bag which is a FBI agent badge, Passport and important
documents
Which shows her profession and give clue to your
she is and what she does.

5. Black Leather Jacket
A lot of inspiration for a leather
jacket came from Kill Bill.
Not only dose it look ordinary
But common convention of
a thriller
Black Trousers
Due to her being an exFBI agent she would have
an ordinary, simple look
which is common in
thrillers as they don’t wish
to cause attention to them
selves rather than a suit
or more professional
clothes as an FBI agent
would wear.
White trainers
Practical for running and
black and white are a common thriller code and
convention because it symbolises the conflict
between good and evil. Also we wanted our
character to look ordinary, this could have been
done to hide her previous job as an FBI agent
and to disguise herself.
Hair Tied back
This shows that our character
is practical and is used to
moving, instead of her hair in
her way, also even thought
she is an ex FBI agent she
would have been used to
have it out of her face due to
uniform of an FBI agent.
Black Top
Black clothing is
neutral, and also she
doesn't bring much
attention to herself.
Grey Bag
The bag being a neutral
colour of grey raises
questions for the
audience due to her to
be so attached to it.
Inspiration from
The Bourne Identity

6. Villain

7. We decided to used a group of villains to make our film more intense
and create and feeling of no escape, popular in common code and
conventions of thrillers such as Dark Night Rises and Sin city.
We also used masks to create secret identities and keep an air of
mystery about the villains. They all wore dark clothing so they could
blend into the shadows and create the contrast of good and evil.
They also were very confident as they as they watched Sally, also with
slow movements at times as if they knew they were going to get what
they wanted also with had sly moments and this makes them seen
unnerving as it makes they seen that they will reach there target no
matter what.

8. White Mask
Used to hide the identity of
the villain and making him
seem in human and sinister.
We got our inspiration from
dark knight and Set up as
they are both thrillers and
used the masked to hide
their
identity.
Gun
Common code and
convention of a thriller.
Builds up suspense and
anticipation and danger.
Inspired from many thrillers
e.g. Face off, Bourne
Identity, James Bond, Sin
City.
Black
Trousers
Shows that he is all in black,
fitting into the theme of the characters and
this is a common code and convention of
thrillers. Also showing the contrast of
good and evil.
Black Hood
Jacket
Another method of
hiding identity and a
suspicion look for our
villain also indicating
that there trained
and know not to be
seen.
Group of Villains
Causes a more intense sense of danger and may cause
the audience to think that they may just be accomplices
for someone similar to Dark Knight as there where a
group of villains working for the main protagonist