2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social groups represented in my thriller are clearly shown throughout the opening sequence. Age is a big concept. Within the opening sequence it shows old charateristics throughout the location and the whole layout of the film as we wanted an old effect for the location. We also tried to make the character seem quite older from the actor's atcual age through his acting and what he does when acting as the male character we want to show the actor within the film as a white middle class male. Also the music that is played in the background would maybe suit a more older, 'sophisticated' person and show that we are representing an older person as it is Mozart and this type of music may appeal to that generation, even though alot of aspects of the film would suit an older person we have targeted our auidence for 15+ and will think that Gender is represented in a stereotypical way as the way man acts as he walks fast and shows anger shows a masculine side to him.

As he enters the room and the sees the note as sitting down it then changes to the opposite to a stereotyped man, as he shows fear from body language, movement and facial expressions. When standing up from hearing the gun shot the viewers see a shadow of a person it may not be known that it is a woman until she speaks, saying 'your turn'. This shows an opposite side of the stereotypical man as he had got very nervous and then had gotten shot by a woman which would show the woman being dominant and the man being passive which is not normally the stereotypical way.

In a way the stereotypes within the opening of the thriller link to the target audience as we are putting the certificate at an age of 15+ but we also think that the film will suit older people too, However we both think a younger audience below the age certificate may may watch it. In another way the stereotypes in the thriller may be challenged in relation to the target audience I think that the film would be more stereotyped towards the male gender but this may be challenged as the male gender are seemed as very passive as the main character (a male) is shot by the woman later in the sequence.

Our questionnaires state that 14 of the 25 people were male, and 11 were felmale. This shows that it was nearly equally split and shows the both sides to the dominant male and the passive side of the male which here then realtes to the audience questionaire. With the age range we asked the results came back with 13 being aged between 14-16, 8 aged between 16-18, and 4 were aged 18+.We were aiming for 14-18 and we have achieved this aim.