2.) How does your media product represent particular social groups? [Scott]

Who is being represented in your product?

-Because our antagonist cannot be seen in full frame, the only character that we can analyse in social group representations is our main protagonist in the second setting.

-He generally represents the middle to higher-classes, of white males perhaps about middle age.

How are they being represented?

-We attempted to make him fit this criteria of social group through our Mise en Scene; for example our costume was that of a shirt, trousers and glasses. 

-This costume could stereotypically be linked to the specific social group because other social groups may have been represented with different costume, such as, lower classes wearing hoodies, caps and tracksuit bottoms.

-We also utilised the mobile phone to help illustrate the idea of him belonging to the certain social group. 

-Although the phone is fairly modern and used by many young people, we decided to use this type of Apple phone because it perhaps shows the audience his wealth. 

-We also changed the sound of the ringing in Garageband to something generic and simplistic because it stereotypically fitted the older, middle class character better  than to have a 'favourite song in the charts' or 'upbeat melody' as his ring tone. 

-We also chose a setting for shooting in which it looked a well-kept home and the character's wealth could be assumed by the audience.

Why is the character being represented in this way? 
-We wanted to create this type of stereotype of a middle-class male so that it fitted with the rest of the story; He is an ex-agent, who would have earned a fair bit of money in his career, that is now retired and living a calm and easy life at his home.

-We didn't however make his wealth extremely evident or for the character to boast it in some way.

-We didn't want the audience or spectator to feel negative towards him, because he is our main protagonist and by the end of our story and full feature want the audience to feel empathy and sympathy for him.

-We think that with our initial opening to our Thriller we positioned the audience so that they will think that this character is an innocent and 'good citizen' who lives a homely life, this is because of the type of setting that we put him in (a tidy and middle-class modern home) We did this so that the audience could imagine a family or 'family man' living there.

-As the plot develops this attitude towards this character is likely to change in many ways. At one point where this character denies his duty to investigate the murders the audience may see him as a coward, although some spectators could see his point-of-view of the situation. And when he finally does take up the mission to figure out what is going on a spectator may feel obliged to get behind and support the character in his 'journey'. By the end of the film, we want the spectator to feel connected to the character as they have followed him on his 'journey' and feel pleased when he succeeds in his mission at the end.