Age• In our thriller the age group varies, the victims are always young (around 4-6 year

olds) and the villain in our film is a teenager at around 14 years of age. From looking at other thrillers in my film analysis not many of the films consisted of teenagers with psychological problems except for “The Butterfly Effect” In this film the psychological problems begin from an early age of around 10 all the way to late teens/young adult. In all the other thrillers it’s usually adults who are the main characters for example in Secret Window, or Psycho. In our film the onscreen social group are teenagers who are 14-15 years of age.

Gender

We filmed both male and females in our film, however the main character is female – unlike most thrillers we decided to make the male character the victim and the female the villain, whereas in films such as Psycho the victim is typically the female character and the male is the villain.

The dominance of the female character is denoted through the space she takes up when filming clips with her in it in comparison to other characters such as the victims like the little boy at the park who takes up less of the frame and therefore is portrayed as inferior.

At the same time as making the girl look quite malicious we had to make her look feminine as well, in order to do this we gave her dark coloured clothing which is traditionally a connotation for evil and death as well as make–up which was pale to make her look a bit creepy.