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

The clearest social group our work represents is definitely gender. Gender plays a key role in asserting power within the main protagonist. This assertion of power withdraws power from the other side of the social group, females.  Representing the male as a criminal lives up to the stereotypes expected in thrillers of this type. We represented our social groups throughout, in particular during the park shots. We chose to have the male leading the conversation goading the female into engaging back in conversation, due to the shots and tone prior to these park shots we know the male has a bad intentions with the female, this causes the audience to feel the female is vulnerable and under threat. 

When choosing how to present the male and female's conversation in the park we chose to use a focus pull distorted by a tilt and set on a banister. This allow for the character to be out of focus drawing attention away from who they but what they represent, almost as if it just their silhouettes. This combined with the fast high pitched score adds tension asserting the threat and vulnerability of the female. The main character has been represented as immoral and psychotic, this representation is also represented in the same shot by the distortion of the frame. As the audience has a hint of what the males intentions are the tilted frame and out of focus presents the immorality within the piece and main protagonist.