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Women: Over the years women are represented as being a vulnerable and only targeted to stereotypes that they are meant to be/follow. For example; housewife’s doing the chores. Being a sex object for men, etc.

Females in the thriller genre often represented using the conventional stereotype that they are vulnerable and unable to rely on

themselves for safety and protection.

Looking at our media opening we could see that we only used female characters in our opening. This shows women in some ways are weaker and something always goes wrong for them. Throughout the scenes there was only one gender shown which was females and no males. This shows that males aren’t always the one that are starring as main characters from the start to the audiences. The music that we used also represents the vulnerability stages that are shown towards the girl in the start as she is seen isolated in her own world reading the book whilst she walks across. The music at the start is subtle but it starts to increase slowly as the scene goes past. However, there is a sudden change of music the moment the book is seen on the floor and I go and pick it up. This key thing in this was to create the suspense to the audience making them think what’s going on and what happened to the other girl.

Age

Teenagers are often represented in the media to be rebellious, disrespectful, lazy, having addition to drugs and put at the bottom of social hierarchy. This shows they are mostly looked down upon in a negative light.

Age within thriller genre can be represented in different ways however look at it the age ranges that act in them are young adults and adults themselves. The reason might be because they are seen as the main protagonist and key character. (20-40)

In our thriller opening we have included two different age groups. One being young teenager and another being an old lady. This scene is when they are seen talking to one another at the Oxfam bookstore about when the girl asks where the antique books are at. As well as teenagers are mostly associated to gangs and dressing in hoodies and such. However, in this film opening Dalaksaline the girl at the start it dressed not in hoodies but in casual dress code with jeans and a jacket. This shows that not everyone should be stereotyped into believing that it’s a norm that teens do thing like that when they technically don’t as everyone is different. At the bookstore she is speaking to an older person in a nice way respecting people older than her this shows that she is a respectful teen as she has a positive attitude to the lady which helps her out when she asks a question. Another way is that it shows the girl being weak but also strong as a character. As I was the one filming I focused on getting low angles shots also to show in some cases she is smart e.g. Sainsbury’s clip when she walking down the stairs.

Ethn

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There are many negative representations of black people, portrayals which seem deliberately designed to inflame the fear and hatred of other cultures. Asian cultures as inherently predatory.

Americans have viewed Asian immigrants as “taking “from this country without giving anything back. This perception was reinforced by early laws making it difficult for Asians to immigrate and impossible for them to become naturalized citizens.

Shift in representation after 9/11 as they showed Muslims in negative light making people have fear towards them.

This shows two different groups of people in our opening. One shows a representation of an ethnic minority group as the main character is an Asian. Whereas, the other lady in the bookstore is British white. This shows that two different people from different backgrounds are able to communicate in a way without showing attitude or behaving in a disrespectful way. Therefore, Asians are not rebellious and should not be treated in a different way as everyone’s equal as our film opening clearly states.