Evaluation - How did your media product represent particular social groups?

For our 'damsel in distress', we chose to have a female, we chose this because it is a typical convention of thriller sequences. Female actress' are shown to be more vulnerable and less heroic than male characters. For her class, it would of been lower class (working class), this is because working class families often have houses in lower security areas, therefore meaning that the kidnapper could easily reach the house. The reason that the teenage girl was the ethnicity that she was is because of casting, we chose the best character to suit our sequence. She would also have to not be disabled as there was the need to be able to walk down stairs.

For our antagonist, we chose to have a male character, this is because male characters are shown to be more dominant over woman. Also in society, men often commit more crime than woman, therefore making the kidnapping more realistic. The social class of the antagonist would have been lower class (working class), this is because upper class people are not shown in society to be criminals, this also shows that it would be a more convincing kidnapping. We see that the kidnapper is a white person, this is because we chose the best person to act the part and they turned out to be white. The antagonist also had to have no physical disability because they needed to be able to act out the kidnapping of someone.