Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For our opening sequence we decided to have Kenya as the villain, one of the main reasons for this is that she has studied drama for GCSE which meant that it wasn’t difficult for her to enter a different role all together seeing as this was one of the toughest roles because the character had to look different from the rest of the crowd. Seeing as she is one of the main characters her hair which is very different to the common female portrayal in most films made her stick out and made the audience follow what she was doing at all times so they could fit the puzzle together. One other important thing we did to fit the conventions of a thriller is the use of the colour of the clothes, we decided she should wear dark clothing which helped by the opening sequence helped connote fear, evil, suspicious behaviour and also tension. With all this put together the audience automatically there is a dark secret behind her and is not entirely what she looks.

‘Claire’ who is played by Kenya is the villain within our movie, she seems intimidating and has a very short temper, she also likes things to go her way without anybody stopping her and will do whatever she pleases, this character is very similar to the ones form the film ‘The Roommate’ which we based our film on and got inspiration from. The two characters are represented in the same way, they seem lonely and friendly at first from the villains point of view but as time goes by the truth gets revealed slowly but not in a pleasant way. This kind of attitude and behaviour is revealed in the opening sequence with Claire’s voice being heard talking about how she loves being in control.

There are some things in common between the two characters and that is that they are both lonely and don’t seem to have any real friends that they can be with or trust.

The differences between the villains in our film and ‘The Roommate’ is that we use body language and voice to reveal what kind of character Claire really is whereas ‘The Roommate’ uses facial expressions and mostly actions to show the audience the secrets.

For our film we decided that Claire wouldn’t be the ordinary villain, where in most films the villains are tough men, here we have a female, but this doesn’t affect Claire because we decided that she would be clever and will find different ways of dealing with people when they don’t obey her and this is revealed a bit in the opening sequence with the spiking of the drink.