Q2. How does your thriller film opening represent particular social groups?

Detective Furnace - Furnace (Firgure 1)

Our thriller film opening represents one particular social group, that being the male detectives of the 1990's, who were at the age of around 40 years old. We represent this social group through the mise en scene, for example the formal suits that the main character (Detective Furnace) wears. This represents the social group of 1990's detectives because this is similar to what they would've worn, as it portrays a formal and intelligent/business like character.

Detective Somerset - Se7en (Figure 2)

 In terms of gender, our thriller opening doesn't represent any form of female social group, due to the fact our opening marginalises women in the way that there are female characters in the opening of the piece. This could be seen, however, as females (and other social groups not presented in our thriller) as a minority in this era/social group, which becomes reinforced by the formal and powerful suit of the main character, showing how the males in the social group have the dominance compared to females, showing them as a minority, therefore being represented as this in our thriler.
  The thriller does represent the main character as a typical hard boiled detective who conveys connnotations of power and authority through his job and formal attire, which makes the character familiar to the audience as they can become fimiliar through this stereotype. However, we also twist this representation at the end of the piece where he lashes out and seems to lose all power in the situation and loses control of himself and the situation he is in.
  We represent the social group of middle aged men (30-40 years old) as formal. business like and organised. However, we also represent this age as confused and psychologically tormented, through the desk swipe in our opening, along with the pill he takes, showing how something has happened throughout his life that has caused this pain, meaning he could live a double-life. 

 Our thriller represents crime in a suburban and "normal" way, through the very suburban house/setting that the thriller takes place in. This could be seen as representing crime in a familiar way to the audience, as it is taking place in unsuspecting places but also everyday locations like a semi-detached house in suburbia of Norwich, which could lead to representations of the hidden darknesses in these locations, and that is the direction our thriller takes, similar to a location and idea such as Walter Whites house in "Breaking Bad".