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How does your media product

represent particular social groups?

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Representation of age.

In my thriller the representation of age is challenge, because in todays society younger people are seen

to be no good and are frowned upon by elders. In my thriller the villain id s middle aged man whomurders a younger man, this flips around the audiences views of age. We have done this to challenge

the audiences thinking and making them not sure who to reason with. Although the killer, Brutus, is a

nasty character the older audience should feel some ambivalent feelings towards him because even

though they hate one side of him for killing Caesar and being cruel and unnecessary the audience relate

to Brutuss protective feeling for his daughter. This feeling of uncertainty makes the audience question

the rest of the thriller and want to find out the conclusion. There are often programs on TV that show

different ages battling to win something or to fix conflict for example Brat Camp where the parentssend their horrible child to a strict camp to sort out behaviour and attitudes. The audience that watch

these types of programs are often strongly opinionated about the younger generation. Programs like

Brat Camp typically stereotype youngsters which doesnt help their image in society.

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Ethnicity.

In our thriller we have challenge ethic

stereotypes by using Caesar, a tall coloured

man, as the victim of Brutus a white middle

aged murderer, we have done this to make our

thriller less predictable and more challenging.

our thriller is greatly linked to This Is England

because they both represent gritty Britain and

the government that shape England. Another

thing that is represented in both my thriller

Caesar and This Is England is racism, we have

chosen to represent racism because it is a very

fragile subject that a lot of people have strong

views of. The representation ofEthnicity in films

varies greatly for example in gangster films often

coloured men are seen to be thugs or real hard

men, I have challenged this is my thriller because

Caesar is a good man who has a kind heart.

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Gender

Women in my thriller play a very small

part I have chosen to stick to this

because often the women are made

strong independent people to prove

that they are equal to men, I have

ignored this because I believe that the

character of Helen in my thriller is very

dependent on her father and that is why

he gets protective and kills Caesar. By

giving the men higher authority in my

thriller Helen is shown to be almost

like a doll they are fighting over giving

her femme fatale characteristics and

representing a typical movie character

portrayal of a woman. This links to

Seven because there are not many

woman throughout the film, and the

main one is murdered at the end

showing her status.