EVALUATION

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Comparing our thriller opening to the opening of 'Se7en' you can see that they both used similar film language to represent particular social groups. For our 'baddie' we used many close-ups of her hands cutting things, similar to the extreme close-ups used in 'Se7en', to create a sense of mystery. The mystery of the characters face inspired us to mimic it in our own film to create suspense as the audience would be unaware of who the person is and why. However, we chose to reveal the characters identity at the end, which created even more tension, to show how a 'ordinary' girl could do such unethical things to another girl. The audience are unaware of who it is and whether they are harmful or harmless. However, it is quite obvious that the fingers of the character in 'Se7en' belongs to a man and ours belongs to a female (which is also revealed at the end of the film). This creates contrast with other thriller villains as it is not usually a female committing the crime so puts a twist on the 'usual'. The close-ups of their hands also emphasise how much time and effort they are putting in to making their scrapbook/letter which shows how disturbed their mind must be as the objects are reflecting negative things, such as death or blackmail.

Another similarity between our thriller opening and 'Se7en' which represented a particular social group was the unknowing victims sleeping. The shots of them sleeping related them back to the villain and foreshadowed that they might have some kind of confrontation within the film. It showed how every other 'normal' person was continuing on with their lives whilst someone was doing bad things which they were unaware of. The twist on our scenario is that by the end of the opening the audience realise that our 'victim' is fully aware that someone is out to get her which contrasts with 'Se7en' as we do not know the relationship between the victim and villain.