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

Who is being represented by your product?

- In our first scene it is not clear what social groups the antagonist belongs to. This is due to only the hands of the character being shown, therefore the audience is unable to identify the social groups the individual may belong to.
- What we can tell from this is that the antagonist is very precise, and probably in everything he does. This is identifiable by when the character is typing on the keyboard.

- The other character that is represented in the thriller opening is in the second scene. He is the protagonist. For the protagonist we have represented him in a very precise social group. This is middle class. The most obvious and clear way for the audience to identify the class of the individual is by the setting.

How are they being represented?

- We have tried to keep our main character that is viewable to the audience, in scene 2, as close to our chosen social group of middle class as much as possible. We have done this mainly through the use of mise en scene, in this case through the characters costume. We have dressed him in trousers, a shirt and glasses in our second scene to make him appear as a middle class, middle aged gentleman.

- The costume was a very important factor as if he were to wear a different type of costume, for example, jogging bottoms and a hooded jumper, he could be easily misread by the audience and put into a completely different social group, such as lower class.

- We also used the setting to construct a representation of our characters specific social group, as well as the mobile phone in the scene.

- The mobile telephone that we used in this scene is an Apple iPhone. Although it may seem in these modern days that many younger people own one of these, especially in the 13-21 year old range, we did not use it because of that. We have used it as it is a rather expensive phone, therefore an addition into helping represent that the character was in a slightly higher social group than some others.

- As well as that, we used a rather modern house as the setting. It is clean, organised and although it isn't a stately home it is definitely a home of a middle class individual. Again, helping to represent the social group we was aiming for, a middle class man.

Why have we represented the character in this particular way?

- We were trying to create a typical stereotype of a middle aged man of a middle class to make him appear almost 'like the next man'. We also have done this to get it across to the audience that this character was the protagonist. Rather than the antagonist.

- We specifically decided on having our protagonist in the middle class social group so that the audience could easily side with him, and even potentially feel empathy for him. Thus feeling the opposite for the hidden and mysterious antagonist.