How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my opening I represented two groups, a victim who represents a young venerable girl and a criminal who represents a kidnapper/killer/rapist. 

We represented the venerable female victim by dressing her in a school uniform to suggest she was only young. We also wanted convey the idea that it was a normal day. We dressed the killer in dark clothing which consisted of heavy boots, and a big coat with a hood to cover the face to enhance the idea of mystery, the killer also held some rope which was used as the killer’s weapon. The lighting also helps represent each character for example the lightning on the killers face is always dark to hide it and to add mystery into the thriller opening. However the lighting on the victim is very natural to show her vulnerability and her innocence to make it more intense. The location also has a big impact on representing each social group. The small empty alleyway and the clothes the killer wears both work together to suggest something bad is about to happen. Also At the start of the opening, the close-ups of the victim are situated in a isolated field surrounded with trees, which also adds to the vulnerability the girl is radiating. 

We aimed to represent people of a similar age to ourselves, and as the target audience was 15+ we thought the audience could relate a lot more to the thriller opening. 

We tried to represent the girl as a young, innocent, helpless girl not knowing what is going on around her at the time of the kidnapping and is unknown to the dangers around her. 

At the end of the opening it shows the victim after the attacker has committed the crime, she is left feeling small and she is forgotten about.

The person we chose to act this girl was Rachel Bland, we chose rachel because she had a drama background and she lived close to where we were filming so she would be able to get to the location easy. We chose stuart Randell to act as the attacker because again like Rachel he had a background of performing arts and therefore would be able to act as the attacker very affectively. 

The shots we did also contributed the the representation of each character for example by using high angled and low angled shots it could highlight power, importance or hopelessness . We used a high angled shot when filming the victim because it gives a sense of looking down on the victim and her hopelessness of what is about to happen to her. Whereas we contrasted with a low angled shot for the attacker to highlight his dominance of the role and aggression he is bringing to the opening.