2. How Does Your Media Product
Represent Particular Social Groups?
3. Delusion
Delusion fits mostly into the categories of gender and disability. This
is because the storyline mostly focusing on the relationship between
the nurse and Summer. The nurse only exists in Summers head it
portrays her disability of schizophrenia. However, it also shows the
power someone f the same gender can have over another persons
thought (Summer). Summer believes that she is being haunted by a
nurse when in actual fact the nurse is just there to look after her ( as
you would find out later on in the film). The last few seconds of the
clip show that Summers schizophrenia has taken control of her brain
and is changing her reality.
4. Expressionism (Lighting; Colour)
Delusion uses lighting to express what the character is feeling. For
example, when Summer is sleeping the room it is dark as if, she has
just had a nightmare about Toms suicide.
Then when she wakes up she turns on a light.
The light signifies that Summer has started to think about her happy
memories of Tom ( which is what you see next in the clip).
The Light then signifies going from the memory of Tom into the
confusion of images going on in Summers head. Tom & Summer walk
from the light into the dark.
5. Delusion
Delusion represents females in three different ways.
Firstly, Summer is represented as someone who is weak, fearful and at
breaking point.
Secondly, the Nurse is represented as the fear in the clip. This is unusual as
in most thrillers it is a male who plays ‘the bad guy’.
The third female character, the therapist, is portrayed as the only sane
person in the clip.
The only male in the clip, Tom, has been represented as weak at first as the
audience sees him commit suicide, as he needed to escape from his
problems. However, he is also represented as the only thing that is keeping
Summer sane. He is her lover, supporter and strength.
6. Stereotypes
In some ways Delusion uses subversion of stereotypes. For
example, in most films it is the woman that needs saving not the
other way around. Delusion supports this stereotype as Summer is
the one who needs saving from herself however, in Delusion the
male cannot save her either as he has passed away. In some ways it is
actually the males fault in Delusion that Summer has got
schizophrenia as Toms death triggered it.
Another, stereotype that Delusion supports is that we have used a
female actor for the nurse as this is classed as the norm.
However, Delusion goes against the stereotype of a man
being ‘ the bad guy’ . Also the fact that the nurse wears
white rather than black. We di this to show that, not all
bad things are dark and curl , some do have good
intentions but they are interpreted wrong.
7. Iconographies In Delusion
Some types of conventions in psychological thrillers are: shadows as
they help to create tension, confined spaces as they make the
audience believe that the character is trapped and unable to escape
their on destiny. A famous convention in thrillers is the use of
running water. This is because water is used to show that all life has
been washed/ drained away from the body. This is used in the
famous shower scene of the film Psycho .
In Delusion Summer never experiences been trapped in a confined
space but, she is mentally trapped in her own mind. Delusion also
uses blood to build tension in the clip as this is a typical iconography
of thrillers.
8. How We Constructed The Representation Of
Delusion.
Delusion was constructed by using a variety of shots and camera
angles. This high angle over the shoulder shot is used to establish
that Summers memory is not as strong as her mind, that is relaying
all the false images she is seeing.
The mind has more
control over her
past memories.
Schizophrenia
controls the
mind. ( more
powerful)
