Evaluation Task 2

Evaluation Task 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?


Our media product represents a sociopath, someone who may be perceived as normal at first glance yet unhinged beneath the surface.
The character in our production can be likened to that of the characters of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) in American Psycho (2000, Harron). In both products 'More than meets the eye' and American Psycho the main protagonists are displayed in formal costume portraying normal working members of society visually, this is affective at creating a twist in the narrative to then introduce unassuming features of a character's nature.


We can also draw comparisons between Bateman and our protagonist as they both portray a sick twisted pleasure in the face of death and murder (as seen to the right).


Although there are uncanny similarities between the two characters such as costume and nature there are also differences. A key difference of the two is the age, Bateman is perceived to be in his late 20s to 30s whereas in our film a considerably younger protagonist is chosen, his age is not revealed yet he can be seen to be of the late stages of adolescents, late teens to early 20s. Both characters are of different positions in society, Patrick Bateman is a Wall Street Investment Banker whereas our character is younger and still of student age or primary employment age, yet this isn't established in the beginning of our thriller to the audience.

In terms of challenging typical film stereotypes we did so to some degree as our protagonist was unassuming and unpredictable in the suggestion that he was 'normal', yet he was the typical thriller subject of mainstream film, a caucasian male which are simply commonplace amongst films not just today but since the genre was made popular, films today confirm the statement, Spectre (2015, Sam Mendes) - Daniel Craig, The Revenant (2015, Alejandro Inarritu) - Leonardo Di Caprio, Mad Max : Fury Road (2015, George Miller) - Bridge Of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) Tom Hardy, the list continues...

We also featured a victim that would challenge certain stereotypes within film as our character was a male instead of a typical defenceless female hoping to be saved by a man. (left Maggie Grace plays Kim pictured in the infamous Taken scene moments before being captured) However the well recognised film stereotype of the black male being the first to die was once again repeated, which we didn't manage to pick up on until we had watched our final product several times and began to dissect the intricacies of the film.