Question 2 Nadia Benahmed

                                Does Your Thriller represent any Particular social groups?

Our Thriller does represent a few social groups such as ethnicity and age also gender.As our main female character is a teenager also representing a main character who is of a different ethnicity from the norms of the main character being a white protagonist within the thriller.

Our Thriller challenges the social groups of gender and ethnicity as the main character being a young  black female also playing the lead in the thriller as usually the main character is a male.It also challenges the fact that within thrillers it is unusual to see a black female survive as normally the black protagonist does die first.It does challenge the fact that normally the main character within thrillers is  a white male from a middle class background this subverts the expectations of the social group of ethnicity within our thriller.

This also creates an understanding of the use of Regional identity as our thriller subverts the idea that our thriller is set in a middle class white area as our main protagonist is from an ethnic background also that our thriller is filmed in a working class environment with aspects of a more basic setting although our thriller features in a an old cemetery which could conform to the idea that our Thriller is set in a middle class area Our thriller infact subverts the expectations of the social group gender although it does conform to the fact that the protagonist is of a very young age aiming for a teenage audience and older.

An example of another female protagonist would be Lara Croft which represented as quite feminine as she has long hair and wears quite revealing and sexual clothing identifying she is infact a female protagonist playing a masculine role as from the image below she holds guns on her thighs.Lara Croft is also quite similar to our main black female protagonist as both characters are female and which is un common.

Our representation of ethnicity is negative as our black female protagonist does infact murder her boyfriend this follows the stereotype of black people creating crime as the crime is un solved and the thriller portrays the young black female's state of mind quite unstable and confused.Our representation of a young black female in trouble could also be a stereotypical representation as the technical elements of close ups and the female being the only character shown in the opening.

Our representation of gender within tortured is stereotypical as our young black female is represented as having a weakness and in danger connoting that male characters are infact the breadwinner as within Tortured we follow the conventions of gender and strength as we didn't portray the female as having a strength in comparison to the female character Lara Croft.