How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The characters in our product represent social groups in several ways.

Protagonist

- White
- Male
- Young
- Lower middle class
- Scruffy appearance
- Mentally unstable

Our protagonist is a psychiatric patient, and represents the "misfit" within the film, common within thriller films. His mental condition shows a representation of disability, whilst his middle class accent and scruffy attire represents the typical "everyman" that gets dragged into a situation despite being an ordinary person.

Psychiatrist

- White
- Male
- Older
- Upper middle class, well qualified, good job
- Smartly dressed, professional looking
- Position of power over his patient

The psychiatrist is representative of the upper middle class professional, with a smart attire and highly qualified job. His accent shows him to be upper middle class, well spoken and literate, in contrast to the protagonist. He shows no sign of disability, and age suggests him to be wiser than the protagonist.

Antagonists

The antagonists are masked throughout the entire film, and have no lines of dialogue. We decided on this to remove them from representation, with their age, class, race, disabilities and profession impossible to determine. This makes them almost removed from being human, and makes them exist purely as a mysterious and scary entities within the film, with no discernible features aside from their costumes and weapons.

- Joseph Lawrence