Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Our characters were of shared background and were both represented as young, white collar, male, office workers in the classification of C1 on

the socio-economic scale.

We focused on meeting this criteria mainly with costumes, the white shirts and ties with trousers and black shoes connotes to what their

profession is and pairs them together as friends, giving them a relationship. Their body language shows them to be laid back and

friendly, along with the dialogue they partake in, although this device changes drastically once Mitch finds the letter.

Mitch becomes a countertype for who we have presented him to be, an accepted member of society with a respectable job, when it is revealed

that he has a secret he is extremely afraid to reveal. This has been done to add to the mystery conventions of thriller films as it is not what

the audience will expect.

The use of a negative countertype may dissuade audience members due to offence but it was done through no

means to personally offend, and I believe that the lack of verisimilitude

would give off an impersonal tone that would make others unable to connect

the film to their own life. I don't believe that there was a need to treat

the group fairly and it would have detracted from the action that we

were trying to build.

From our audience feedback, we feel as if we were quite successful in obviously representing the group.

Audience feedback

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