Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My thriller represents teenage girls in a negative light. It represents them as looking ordinary but havinghidden motives. It represents the conflict between the stereotypical bitchy teenage girls and the stereotypical 'loner'. My thriller shows that teenage girls of this age group have strong, powerful emotions that can possess them to do the most ridiculous things such as stalking and becoming jealous of a girl who isn’t really that much different to themselves.

At the start of my thriller the tension is built up with the stare of the anxious eye, this image creates the loner image as it is not a glamorous eye, it is plain and ordinary. It suggests that the loner/stalker is threatening towards the other girl, even though the audience is not sure what is happening yet. In contrast, the first image we see of the other girl is when she is looking in the mirror, looking very glamorous and playing with her hair. This connotes how someone so glamorous really is childlike along with the shot of the girl with her rabbit. It suggests that she is naive and doesn't really know what is happening. This is also suggested when she accepts an invitation to the girls house, even when she clearly doesn't know her very well at all.

 At the start of the opening, there are a lot of cutaways to the girl being stalked, this suggests the threat she is under, but because she is so naive she doesn't know what is happening even though it is right under her nose. The representations of the girls represent the school context grouping and how different girls belong to different social groups purely on what they look like and this is shown throughout my thriller.

The audience can relate to these stereotypical characters and their emotions in the thriller. They know what it feels like because they experience a mixture of these emotions in their teenage years and can sometimes struggle with the effects of them, just like the girls in my thriller.