How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The girl in the middle is from the film we based our opening from, Hard Candy. The first girl is from the popular thriller film Taken.

We chose these two girls because they are very similar to our protagonist (third picture) and were in similar productions.

The social groups represented in our thriller are:

White, working class, teenage female, and white, middle class, mid-aged male.

Gender is presented very sterotypically in our opening, (though perhaps not the rest of the film) with the dominant male, and the passive female. Ruby is almost presented as "The Damsel in Distress".

In the opening scene, the audience only meets Ruby and Larry, but in no real depth. Ruby appears as a sterotypical teenager, with her makeup, laptop and Web Messenger, however she also shows a certain indepenance and has an almost mysterious air to her. She travelts alone to go and meet Larry, whom she has never met before, or so the audience would assume. She enters Larry's den alone, but doesn't seen afraif, she even takes off her coat, as though she's going to be staying there for a while, she appears comfortable. She discovers her picture, but she takes her time, she's in no rush. We think this would confuse an audience as typically speaking, a young girl travelling alone, finding strange things in a man's home, she would be very tense and afraid.

It's hard to represent Larry in the opening sequence. There is no dialogue in the opening and this makes it very hard to relate to the characters. Larry is presented as the pervert, the predator, and this is through music and audiences prejudice's about an older man and a younger girl, as well as the internet.