Evaluation Task 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The image above is our lead character called Alice, played by Daisy Webster. Both girls have blonde hair and blue eyes which show a stereotypical innocence and make both characters appear vulnerable and naive, almost childlike. As you can see from the image Daisy looks trapped in a confined, claustrophobic space, she looks beaten and bruised and it is clear from her appearance that she is malnourished and suffering. Similarly the image of Alicja Bachleda Curus displays the same features as the image of Daisy. In both images the girls appear vulnerable and defenseless within the underworld of sex trafficking. Both images show females as they are the main victims of sex trafficking operations, regardless of age, which is why we decided to use a female as the main character in our thriller and also have another female victim accompany her. Both girls are pictured in the conditions they are forced to live and 'work' in, both places look dirty and rundown, something we paid close attention to when deciding upon a location.

 The image above is of the brief interaction the audience get with one of the traffickers. We decided to blur this character out in this frame and not reveal anything about who he is because most of the men than traffic women want to keep their identity hidden, this way they have less chance of getting caught. This character is similar to Marco from the film taken. He is the ring leader of this specific trafficking group and he calls the shots and this is shown through his violence, rough pushes towards one of the victims in the thriller and his powerful dominance over her as he chases after her down the corridor. In both of these images the traffickers/kidnappers are male this is because in most cases of trafficking it is men who traffic women and not women who traffic women. However, in some cases women work alongside the male traffickers to lure in the women but the ring leaders of sex trafficking are predominantly males. From Matt's stance and walk in the frame captured it shows the dominance of his character over the vulnerable women, which resembles that he is superior and they are inferior.