Question 2

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Any type of media needs to address a particular audience, and to do this is needs to portray particular social groups in such a way that is appealing to them.   
In our final production we have inserted characters that have some similarities to characters from other thrillers; these characters represent their respective social groups in such a way to make then more appealing to their group. 

This is a picture of our female victim; she is standing on the platform waiting for the train. In this picture she could represent any one social class as she doesn’t obviously belong in any.

Similarities can be drawn between the female victim character in the thriller “Psycho” and our production: both victims have no distinctive social class and as such can be related to by a larger population. This use, in both productions, of a weak female character could attract a more male oriented population and as such this selection of weak characters also reflects on the general male dominant social group.
On the other hand our title is (Kate’s Revenge) implies that our victim will somehow make an appearance later in the film: either by having a medium through which to express her story, for example having a lawyer looking into the events that transpired in the intro, or by manifesting in a more supernatural way. This can help represent a more female oriented social group by showing that the main victim character can in fact be a force to be reckoned with.

The dominant character in the production however is the killer: we deliberately masked him to lend an air of mystery and dread to his figure.
He exerts his dominance throughout the intro by physically imposing himself over the female victim and through his reactions to the victim’s struggles. His dominance represents a very male oriented social group.

Our killer can be compared to Hannibal Lecter, the infamous serial killer from “The Silence of the Lambs” as he shares with him several attributes: these boing that neither feels any remorse for committing their respective actions, this is shown by Lecter’s predilection for eating his victims and in a more subtle way our protagonist by calmly looking down at his victim after he has knocked her out and ties her to the tracks. Also our killer chooses a very unusual way of killing his victim and so does Lecter (i.e. eating them).