How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The age rating for the film is 15+. This is mainly due to the violence within the film, althought there is no swearing in this piece of the film there would be in the bits which follow. My research found that a very large proportion of the thrillers on the market catter for 15 and above, this i believe is due to the fact it is very hard to make something gripping or scarry when it has to catter for children the only thing i can think of which has done that is Doctor who which has scared genorations of children.

I chose to target the teenage male market 15+ because it is shown they are the largest and most important group interested in thrillers and therefore continuation of the cinema thriller. I chose this group because of the group result from my questionnaire
what age are you?
13-15 10%
16-18 60%
22-35 10%
41-50 20%
what is your gender
male 70%
female 30%
this shows that my audience is predominatly going to teenage males and maybe some male 40 + yr olds going through midlife crisis, which all point to one aspect increasing the sale we need to use a female and we need to make them as sexy as posible which is why she is wearing leather. It has been proven that if your film has good looking attractive main charecters then your film will do better than if your charecters are ugly but your script is amazing.
The villain and hero were portrayed the way they were, because the use of a strong independent but angry female is appealing to the female audience, as it breaks away from the sterotypical weak female victim. Having a strong female as the hero, helps to increase the number of female audience members, we also chose this character because it disrupts the moral positioning of the audience. Making the audience more engaged and interested to find out whom is actually the villain and who is the hero. The male character, the villain is a priest usually portrayed as a kind gentle person this priest is a vicious and angry antagonist totally oppositeto what is expected of a preist and the female hero seems very unassuming concidering, this also helps to break out of the normal conventions, but i think it works .
The film isn’t meant to be set in this reality as such, it is a sort of mix between the real and the fantasy so the audience is able to empathise with the characters even know some of the plot isn’t necessary realistic. we did this in an attempt to stimulate the imagination of the audience.
I researched the genre thriller by watching and reviewing movies like Psycho.
And Memento, two very different films but both classed as thrillers. Admittedly Memento is a psychological thriller, but that very fact means it is in the same sub-catogory as some of the most successful thriller’s.

The production has some aspects which may offend some religious cults as it is basically based on the demise of an evil cult so the real cults out there may take offence to the view I have taken to describe them. The dress code for the film production for the girl hero is
casual urban ninja lots of blacks and leather combined with high healed boots. And for the priest a dark suit with a black shirt and priests white dog collar strip.