2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The picture of the girl on the right is one of the main characters in our thriller opening 'Unknown'. She is a 17 year old girl who is unaware that she is being stalked.  The blond girl on the left named 'Donna' is from the film 'Prom Night'. Both these girls have similarities and few differences in the way they are represented.
Lauren who is the teenage victim in our film unknown is represented as a stylish, popular, fun girl who likes to go out and socialise with her friends a lot. This is very similar to Donna in Prom Night as she is a well known girl and popular in her school, she is one of the of the students nominated for prom queen which resembles her popularity and she also is very fashionable and up-to date with the latest fashion just like the victim in our opening.
They both have similar roles in the films, they are both young blond females who are being stalked. Lauren is unaware that she is being stalked even though she has been having frightening nightmares about a man stalking her and doesn't realise that her nightmares are slowly coming to reality.
Donna isn't exactly being stalked but shes being watched by a killer from her past which she is unaware that he is back just like Lauren.
These characters are quite stereotypical as most young victims are blond teenage girls who are oblivious to everything around them. They may also be stereotyped as stuck-up and dumb because they are popular, pretty and blond who are easily victimised.

In our film unknown, we have used a variety of camera shots and movements to construct representation of the main female character such as close ups, high angle shot and medium shots. The high angle shot shows how small she is compared to her stalker and that he is more powerful and dominant than her. The close up shot of when she wakes up from her nightmare denotes emotions and facial expressions and it connotes fear, worry and sadness as she feels it is really real.

The picture on the right is of the stalker who is another main character from our film unknown. He is psychologically mental and has no relatives or friends and has never been seen before. He has an obsession with a teenage girl and stalks and harasses her.

 The picture on the left is of a man from the film 'One hour photo', he works in a photoshop and like our stalker from unknown, he starts to have an obsession with a woman and her family and stalks them.

These antagonists are not exactly the same in appearance and in their roles but in some ways they are.
The man from one hour photo is quite old and he has a job and comes across as a nice, friendly guy who doesn't really seem suspicious or mysterious however the stalker from our film unknown is a lot more different, he is around late twenty's-early thirties, he dresses suspiciously because he always wears a hoodie to cover his face, no-one has ever seen him before and his identity is hidden. The only way they are similar are that they are both stalkers but they go around it different ways.

To construct our representation of the man in our film unknown we have again used a variety of camera shots and angles such as close-up shots, over the shoulder shots and medium shots. We never see the stalkers face in the opening as he is always covering his face with his hood, this makes him seem very mysterious and suspicious and it creates a tensed atmosphere as the audience don't know who he is.

Also the music makes him seem a lot more dangerous and creepy as it builds up tension and suspense and the setting also adds effect as silent housing estates and parks are often where incidents and crimes take place.