Shameelah Iqbal: Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller displays the darker side of a person suffering from the disease of schitzophrenia, the portrayal of a schitzophrenic was very important to us therefore we took it upon ourselves to re-search on the disease to make sure we got an accurate portrayal of one (drawing inspiration from fightclub).
We also,subverted the typical schitzophrenic as we made them the mother in our thriller showing our audience that it can happen to anyone.We also made the daughter the police officer in the thriller to try and create a narrative of the daughter going on a discovery to try and find out whos murdering people when its in fact her own mother.

The mother is a subvesion to the classic housewife as she is a schitzophrenic, i think this narrative creates an enigma in the opening of our thriller. Our aim was to try and create an atmosphere as though the mother seemed almost perfect and innocent compared to her devious dual identity.