Monday 22 March 2010

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




Our thriller was aiming to represent women as vulnerable whilst men being strong, domineering characters: frightening to the female. In our film, the female character, due to circumstances becomes isolated, therefore helpless to the dangers within the forest without her ‘male protector’. Alfred Hitchcock's: Psycho mirrors this female vulnerability theme very effectively as a classic example of a conventional thriller. The male character (the stalker), in our opening, is wearing very dark clothing, so along with the high contrast, the stalker is an all round dark character, in his personality and appearance. Although his clothing is dark, he is still in the usual modern clothing of today, rather than the long black coat and hat in which we previously intended for him. I feel this was to give the thriller a more modern, up-to-date angle, rather than the generic 'old fashioned' thriller in the woods. We decided for the stalker to behave as stalkers usually do: watching a certain person from afar. He watches her through the branches of a tree so it seems as if he is trying not to be noticed. We also decided for the stalker to make no actual physical contact with the victim, therefore not revealing too much about what is to come, only that he is an obvious threat to the female character. The threatening feeling we recieve from him is from both the music and the dark clothing, not particularly from his actions.

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