Question Two

My media production represents particular social groups by having younger actors in it meaning that they are attracting the younger target audience. Usually crime thrillers are a 15, as they contain images not suitable for people under that age. The BBFC who do age ratings for films would also put it as a 15 as in there as there are scenes of violence where pain is inflicted. There is only one image of a ‘dead’ body.

The audience demographics for our thriller have a socio-economic class of C2. We choose this after researching what types of audiences watch certain things.

The first actor that is seen on screen is Luke Crane previously he has had an acting experience and we thought that he would be good for the main charterer playing the detective. In the left hand picture is Sherlock Holms who is a detective in crime thriller genre as well. The similarity between the two charterers is that they both have dark brown hair, which could symbolize that they are hiding something from other people. Furthermore they are both wearing smart clothes, which could mean they are getting work done quickly and professionally. Both backgrounds are spooky and mysterious at the same time as the both relate to something to do with murder. Both those two are strong and calm throughout the film as that what the detective needs to be. Typically men in films seems to be doing the heroic thing such as saving people and in ours that is no different, Luke is a young male who is strong and powerful to be able to get the job done. We put him as the detective to follow the stereotypical conventions in thriller films, trying to make it as real as possible. The type of audience that this audience would typically attract is a young adult/ older teen-16+; this is because the most watched thrillers  

The second main actor is Sam Payne who was playing the role as a victim, stereotypically the victims are females as they are seen a weak and unable to beat a man, we have reversed the role of the victims as are film was based around to army men fighting and killing each other. Only a few months before this woman were not allowed on the front line so we decided to use a male and follow the typical conventions. Sam is the smallest in the group who looked like a regular person also a victim so we had to add makeup to make the look on his face look rough and worn out. Sam’s dark black could mean that he is hiding something that the killer might want to know. The lighting of where we put the body was bright as we were trying to simulate a mid-day investigation and to make sure that the audience can see the bruise around his eye. We filmed this charterer against a wall because in other films that I have studied the dead body against the wall shows that the person has tried to fight off the killer and have failed. The audience that this will attract is mainly males because when researching the audience males prefer to have violence and blood in films, they would be between the ages of 16 to 20 inside my target audience.

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