How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our thriller opening, we were aiming to put across that the film was about a wedding, and how the wife was left at the altar by her husband-to-be.  In the screen shot (left), we can see the groom getting ready for the wedding. To help show the social group we were aiming this at, we put the actor (Jacob Wright) in a suit. This portrays that he is going to a wedding. Also, it helps relate back to people who are getting married or also, a couple. In our final thriller opening, we made the plot line unconventional, this means that the male was the victim in the thriller opening instead of the female, and the female was the villian. We made this clear in the thriller opening.

 

These two print screen shots of our thriller opening are great examples of shoing the bride's costume. It is showing a side view of the dress she is wearing, and also the long veil, not revealing her face. Then a close up revealing the brides' happy expressions and showing the bride holding a bunch of flowers (which play a convention in the romance side of the thriller opening. It also helps us put across to the audience that our social grouo is based around a couple at a wedding.