Thriller evaluation Q.2

Q.2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our thriller we wanted to make it unsettling and mysterious so this meant that we had to make the characters creepy and suspicious as well. This was where we got a few ideas from the “Seven” opening as the character in the beginning was very strange as he was doing things that were abnormal. So this is how we wanted our thriller to be with the character roles. You do not see the characters face in “Seven” during the opening until the end and then you realise that the person himself looks pretty strange especially seeing as he has blood all over him which you will see from the image below.

We have tried to create a similar effect with the characters in our thriller. The killer in our thriller will be very mysterious and creepy. Our character will be a female aged between 20 and 30. The plot around the killer is that this person is getting her revenge on the boys who she went out with and they dumped her. This is why she has lots of maps and sources of information that give her the details she needs in order to find her old boyfriends. To make sure that we keep the identity of the killer a secret we made sure that all the camera shots we used did not show her face right up until the end of the thriller opening. This meant that we only used close up shots when we showed the killer doing something like burning pieces of paper. We also used medium shots but below the top half of the body so that you could only see the killers legs. These features would create a bigger surprise and twist to the plot because it would build up to that one moment at the end where the audience realise it is a women killing men. We also made sure that our mise-en-scene props were suitable to the killer. For example to keep the gender of the killer a secret we made sure that we gave her dark and plain clothing rather then bright colourful dresses for example which would give the gender identity away. Below are two images of our two main characters. The victim (left) has blood on his shirt which suggests that he has been hurt in some form. He is also tied up with tape and as the audience you wonder what has happened to him. The killer (right) has mostly dark clothing and you cannot see their face. From this image the audience will want to know who this person is and what is he or she doing. These two characters are mysterious because they give the audience the sense of the unknown.