Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film, we have only used one main actress and the rest of the people in it are all in the background. With our actress, she is meant to subtly give the appearance of a terrorist while not giving it away to the audience that her main aim through-out the clip is to bomb the town.We wanted to get someone who could have a straight, emotionless look on their face. Sterotypically teenages are looked at as trouble. In some ways this is shown in the film, which you find out in the end, but over the whole of the clip you can't tell that the actress is planning something so challanges the stereotype.

Stereotypically, you would not expect a teenager or a girl to be carrying and planning on planting a bomb, hence us deciding to use this character type. We thought it would be more effective as the audience would not be expecting it.

Another thing we decided would be effective is when she was walking through the town, no-one looked at her suspiciously as if they knew something was about to happen. This what we were hoping to gain in our film as it was all about building suspense and tension. If everyone walking past her knew what was about to happen and were looking at her, this would not happen and the audience would automatically know something was going to happen.