Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There are no particular groups of people of a certain age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity or culture. However I do believe that my thriller product does “speak” to a certain type of people who would enjoy watching my thrillers genre. These people I would associate as relatively within the ages of 15-60, any race, any gender, and any religion except those that view violence as particularly bad and any ethnicity or culture.

Speaking of culture however does raise the question of whether or not my thriller could be associated as a realistic possibility and whether or not it is more possible to occur in a certain culture. This is important to know as I would then realise these characteristics of my target audience and possibly alter the thriller or market it to certain people. This culture I see as possibly European, or American? I see it less likely to relate to audiences of other cultures such as Asian, African, South American etc. as the actors do not look like them or act in certain ways that the public from another culture would. The whole thriller is also set in the English countryside, and not somewhere else that other cultures may find easy to relate to. It is for this reason why I don’t think that any other culture would easily relate to my product.

Age wise, there are also small limits to which I think my thriller will be appropriate or enjoyable to certain groups of ages. For example I believe my thriller is not suitable for anyone under the age of 12 to watch, this is due to the large use of cigarettes, violence etc. And I also believe that anyone over the age of 60 may dislike the genre of a thriller but I could be wrong with that certain hypothesis. It completely depends on the own persons personal taste.

In conclusion I have not particularly “altered” my video to fit a certain social group’s perceived tastes. However I believe that my thriller rather fits into a universal social group of most people, which in general means that anyone can enjoy it but it purely depends on the own audience members personal tastes.