Task 2: How Does Our Meadia Product Represent Particular Social Groups - Hurtwood

Within films and shows it is incredibly important that the representation of people as a whole are as accurate as possible so that the audience can relate to it. There have been multiple lessons where we have covered most subject area's such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class and others; all of which are covered in an equal and right way. This is to ensure that we have a full, whole understanding of the criteria we are expected to cover when producing our Thriller.

Personally I think that this is a very important aspect to take into consideration as it involoves the audiences opinion as a whole and if this was incorrect in any way or even unjustily then this could cause the film as a whole in a pretty bad way; ultimately giving our film a bad review altogether.

This is a difficult topic to talk about with our Thriller 'Opening' sequence because we don't actually include any characters so people aren't able to associate themselves with a person.
So the only way people could possibly relate to it in a similar way would be the way we created our mise-en-scene and sound, which as a whole is very dark and eery which sterotypically is preferred by typical males. This atmosphere is created by the low key lighting throughout and also the variation of diegetic sound that is also used is fairly mixed and masculine.

However this is only an issue in the opening sequence itself, of course throughout the film there will be characters. Our intensions of how the film is going to progress is to involove a character who is going to try and struggle to save mankind from this epidemic. Together we have created a main male character with an ealry age of late twenties/early thirties who is healthy and rathe musculear; Preferrably someone who is attractive as this is liked by a female audience. Also men feel as if they can relate to a character like this as they strive to become/ use this character as a role model of some sort.
He will also be straight as this gives us the opportunity for him to have some kind of romantic, love insterest throughout the film and can be the streotypical 'hero' of this film. The majority of the film he will be seen in a positive way like most sterotypical characters like this, additionally he will be represting a dominant ideology in a particularly positive way. However having said this we do think that including a twist in the film to show him in a negative way would cause a stir and possibly fustrate the audience as this would subvert our original positive reflection.

We also intend on including the typical 'baddy' in this film which in this case wilol be the sufferers of the disease which will be subverted in a heighted negative way. These characters will be contrasted against the 'good' charcters and effectively produce a more extreme presentation.