Q2

2)How does the thriller represent particular social groups?

Our thriller shows the stereotypical thoughts of people and social groups in many ways. People in hooded tops are usually perceived as being trouble makers, scary people and the antagonist of the film. A group of young people can be perceived as the instigators of most criminal offenses too. Young people are thought to be always at crazy parties, binge drinking and getting into trouble. Our film does not stereotype against any group, race, sexuality or gender in any way.

The picture above is a still of the party scene in our thriller 'The Betrayal'. When we think of teenage parties we think of them being wild, crazed and out of control. In the thriller there is a party scene, the party scene looks manic and is very stereotypical of the age group that the characters are at the party, the whole storyline of a drink getting spiked at this party is also very stereotypical of teenagers. The reason for this is that it portrays them to be trouble makers and not thinking much of how what they do can cause consequences. 

The still that is below this also portrays people in dark colours such as black and hooded tops to be trouble as this is what the kidnapper is wearing. The dark red is associated with anger, evil and blood which we thought was a way of showing the evil and possible dark thoughts in the kidnapper. This stereotype is often made and is backed up by our film although we very much disagree with it.