Nicolas Orozco's AS Media Studies Blog: Evaluation 2 - How does your Media product represent particular social groups?(gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity etc)

My media product presents social groups in an unusual way. Through out the opening of the thriller we don’t directly show the characters face. This was intentional as we wanted to show that the audience didn’t need to know what social group the person was from for them to be enticed by the film. I feel this was an interesting way of portraying social groups as it doesn’t actually show any social group but still gives the audience the same feel they would get from any other film. Also this is a good method as it builds more suspense for the audience and makes them more curious as to what is going to happen. The opening of this thriller gives away almost nothing and makes the audience be on the edge of their seats, anticipating what is to come. Another reason this method is used is because it is a spy thriller, and the stereotype of spy thrillers is that the spy is not recognised and moves around without being located; this helps to portray that aspect of the spy genre. This gives the character a certain advantage over the audience because they cannot see who the character is and so they cannot make a judgement of their personality or their aim.