How does your media product represent

particular social groups?

QUESTION 2

FEMALE CHARACTERS IN

THRILLERS

In the silence of the lambs,

the female character is being

portrayed as weaker than the

male.

In psycho, the female

character is the

victim.

Our main character is a girl and she plays the victim, this is stereotypical as

women are seen as weak and vulnerable. We mainly did this for the role as we

thought the audience would be drawn to a female character more. Though, we

also wanted to have a female being the lead as in thrillers, the protagonist is

usually male. The other character in our thrillers gender remains anonymous,

the actor was female, but the point was to let the audience question the

identity of the other character.

OUR THRILER

The location of our thriller is a park. One of the reasons we chose this are is

because it can appeal to most audiences as most people would have been to a

park so they would be able to relate to the setting.

LOCATION

We want our target audience to be:

• Teenagers

• Students

• Anyone that enjoys thriller films

TARGET AUDIENCE