My media product gives representations of particular social groups through the narrative, storyline and actors
This is typical representation of a man in the Thriller genre and in most genres. There is an ideology that men are a lot stronger and more dominant than women and there for are more mentally strong, brave and successful.
The male character ‘Fred’ although as an audience at the start there is no clear signs of identity for him, he audience have no idea what he looks like as he is hidden behind a gas mask which would later be explained if we could have continued filming. There is no clear signs of nationality, or name. He is shown to be quite mysterious, as first of all we do not expect what he plans to do, but the audience definitely do begin to understand that he isn’t quite sane, by the way he is portrayed and his movements are quit sharp and aggressive. He is definitely the antagonist.
His visual aspects are quite clear beside the fact that he hides behind a mask, he is a lot wearing a quite dirty boiler suit, Yet again he cannot form and identify with plain clothes so he is quite intriguing as he is hard for the audience to work out, as its not clear whether he is sinister or not.
Kami who is my female character is represented to be the stereotypical hostage woman, who is tied up and is helpless and as far as we know is being kept down an old war bunker, the audience have no idea how long she has been down there or what she has done. She shows the stereotypical emotions of struggling and screaming. By having a stereotypical ‘Normal’ girl allows the audience to relate to her but at the same time it allows me to show the and enhance how messed up Fred my male actor is. This agrees with the codes and conventions of the Thriller genre as the majority of thriller films do have a ‘Damsel in distress’ at some point.
The camera shot of her being highlighted by the spotlight, shows her struggle and the illumination of her in a dark place shows how alone she must feel.
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