Hows does your media product represent particular social groups? (gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity etc)
Our thriller only consisted of three characters, two being male and one female. This means there wasn't much female representation within the thriller, but we still managed to represent both genders within the thriller. The range of our actors was went from 17 - 50, this an extreme leap with such a big age gap, but I think that the range helped to reach out to both the older and younger generation.
There is no particular portrayal of young people within our thriller, so they wasn't necessarily shown in neither a positive or negative way. However, some people may think we have used the very common stereotype of a young vulnerable female character that just so happens to be by herself and is defenceless. This is a very typical stereotype used within thrillers, but we didn't necessarily decide on using this stereotype we just picked a female to play the character. We do not show this particular stereotype in any positive or negative way, this is just the lead character in the thriller that the audience follows through the story with, she does nothing that would suggest her type of character. We also have used another common stereotype of the 'Mysterious Character'. We did use two of these within our thriller to try and trick and play with the audiences minds a little. But the general description of the mysterious character would be that they act out of the ordinary, wear some form of dark clothing. In most thrillers you would however see this characters face, in our thriller Nightwalker , we decided to keep this characters face a completely hidden, so emphasis the mystery behind him.
We didnt have any representation of any different sexualities or ethnicity within our thriller, which may be something to consider for next time. I think that if we could redo all of this again, then we would have maybe included more characters, especially females so they were represented more and try to add in any representations we could of the different sexualities and ethnicities that there are.