Question 2:
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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Gender & Age
My media product represents teenagers and young adults (16-30) that are interested in high paced crime thrillers. Due to there not being a female actor, this will possibly make the audience predominantly male. similar to a film like John wick 2. In addition, having 4 black characters will appeal to teenagers even more because of things that they will have in common, for example, the greed of wanting a lot of money to spend, also intrigued by the action scenes, which are relatable to Brotherhood (A Noel Clarke film). In addition, as males are stereotyped as competitive, this could portrayed in my thriller opening as the victim is kidnapped by male protagonists for money.
My thriller opening supports the stereotype of teenagers caring for themselves and misbehaving. This gives it the realism effect as it helps my storyline to be more realistic as the audience will think as if it can happen to them, leaving them to panic and feel anxious when watching.
1.1
As the two kidnappers are Black, in these type of crime thrillers that it seen as the usual. The fact that there is no change could be seen as a positive as now the target audience would know that the film will be exciting. To improve my thriller opening, I would have had racial diversity for the film to open up to an even broader audience. Nonetheless, having 3 Black main characters is effective because of how little it is seen.
1.2
The social groups that are represented in my thriller opening are a working class group of teenagers in a public school. This implies their hunger for more and wanting more than other people (greed). This is really the main plot of our thriller opening, the antagonists want what they haven't got and find a way to get it.
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Social Class
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