Question 2: How does your thriller film opening represent particular social groups?

In our thriller opening we focus on a male detective as our main and only social group, who is presumed to be in the age of 40 to 50 years old.  We took a lot of inspiration and influence from the movie Se7en and so based our character very similarly to Detective Somerset: a male detective presumed to be in his older ages as he is retiring at the end of the film. Since we took a lot of influence from Se7en itself, we followed this again with the way we represented the social class we were focusing on which was primarily mise-en-scene. The suit costume is the common factor of similarity between the detective in our own piece and detective Somerset in Se7en.

Detective Somerset

The suits themselves show the audience the representation of power and authority but not a corrupt and unjust possession of power that a suit may sometimes connote.

Detective "Furnace"

• As for the gender differences in our own piece, we did not include any women characters in the opening illustrating their marginalisation as a gender. This marginalisation of woman could connote that women are inferior to men and that women should not partake in detective roles as it can be dangerous and tough work which should be left to do by the men. However, both the detectives in Se7en and our own piece lack a female support in their lives, and the detective in our own piece has a psychological breakdown for reasons unknown. But it could be his loneliness. Detective Somerset doesn't have a breakdown but he does have a clear abundance of loneliness and singularity. Therefore it could be that the lack of women in our opening and in Se7en doesn't show a weakness in women but more the power that they have and how they contribute to the world.