2) How does our thriller represent a particular social group?

In our thriller we wanted to show men in a bad light and woman in a good light. We followed up the gender stereotypes that woman are more vulnerable than men by making the woman the victim and the man the criminal. We wanted our thriller to be based on a true story so we chose Jack the ripper. Jack the ripper went around murdering prostitutes in the victorian era so we followed up that idea as we wanted our thriller to be based on normal stereotypes so that more people could relate and understand it.   Our thriller also shows the factor of mental disability as the man killing all the prostitutes must have a mental handy cap. This again falls into another stereotype that society may have on people with mental disabilities which is that they are dangerous. This is controversial as there are no clear signs as to what his reasons are for killing the girl in our opening sequence but some people may jump to the fact that he's mentally unstable.
Examples of other films which use the same genre is 'drag me to hell' which uses the same basis of an evil male lead and a vulnerable female lead. This conforms to the stereotype which we tried to portray in our thriller which is that men are more powerful that women and therefore have more control over them.

Serial killers are also represented in our thriller. You don’t see Simon, our actors, identity the whole way through, this is similar to Jack the ripper as to this day still no one knows who he was. The reason as to why serial killers become murders are placed into four categories; Visionary which is when they suffer from psychotic breaks and find it hard to know what is reality and what isn’t. Hendonistic, which is when they seek thrills and enjoy killing people. Lust which is when they  sex is the main reason for killing the victim, they see themselves as ‘ridding the world’ of an undesirable person, such as prostitutes.  We only see one killing that our murder commits, however it is clear from the context that we see it in that he is planning on killing more. You can tell due to his calm and even passed walk as he stalks his vulnerable prey as he feels he is in full control of the situation. This suggests that he is not planning on stopping here and that he plans on committing more murders as he will not be satisfied with just one.  The contrast between the two characters is further shown through camera work, as he is calm and composed, shown through his steady and composed shadow, which further emphises his mysterious identity and the victim is vulnerable and frantic, you can see this through our use of slow motion on her face as she turns around and you can see her panicked face.

Ripper street is similar to our film and deals with Jack the Ripper killings as well as all the social groups we have running through our thriller.