In our thriller we decided to subvert from the gender roles and show female power through the mise-en-scene. The female protagonist hold a knife in the scene, whereas the male antagonist does not, this shows her power in the scene as she is the one with the weapon and the male character is not. Even in the extras, the female extra who plays a police officer holds a large rifle, whereas the two male police officers with guns hold small police officers, this subverts from the stereotypical role of women in films where they play a damsel in distress and instead shows a more powerful domineering female character. The female antagonist also wears a green coat, the fact that she is the only character that wears colour, all the other characters wear black, she wears the colour green to connote that she is disgusted with the fact that she stabbed the male character. The stab wound of the male character on the floor, is another subversion from the male archetype in film, as it shows the man as having his dominance in a scene taken over and subverts from stereotypes of female characters.
Camera is used to subvert from gender stereotypes. The female protagonist has always got a steady camera movement on her, and when the police officer becomes more hand-held as he realises the degree of the mental instability of the female protagonist, this shows that he is the one that is more fearful and that in her head even though she is scared, she is strong, which is why the camera is stable on her. The female character is mainly shown with a completely blurry background and only her in focus, this shows the confusion in her head and how lost she is in her own mind. The male antagonist however has more things in focus within his shots, this shows that he is grounded and secure, this adheres to stereotypes as it shows the male as a more stable and less eccentric character than the female.
The shots are held longer on the female protagonist, this is to establish that she is the character that the narrative is going to follow. There is more wide shots of the male character as it shows the scale of his team and that he is a authoritarian figure within the narrative which adheres to stereotypical gender roles in film.
There is no soundtrack in the scene, the audio is purely diegetic as it is all dialogue and ambient sound that we filmed on the day. The female protagonists dialogue is more loud and shrill whereas the male antagonists whose dialogue has a much calmer tone. The sound in the scene adheres to the stereotypes surrounding gender as males are stereotypically not caring and much more calm in social situations, however are outspoken, whereas women usually talk more manically and panicky.
In our thriller we decided to adhere to stereotypical views of ability and disability through mise-en-scene. The ‘disabled’ female character is wearing a jumper under her green coat, the black jumper shows that she is void of normality and the green coat that symbolises that she is disgusted with what she did to the point of her even denying it to herself, this emphasises her mental disability. The police officers all wear black and formal clothes, this shows a higher position of authority and shows that the able are higher status that the disabled character. The number of police are important as well as it shows that the abled outnumber the disabled, however, it does change from adhering to subverting as stereotypically the mentally ill are ignored by the majority and her lashing out draws attention to them and shows that they shouldn’t be ignored.
The camerawork subverts from the stereotypical roles of ability/disability. The camera is stable on the ‘mentally disabled’ character as the narrative follows her and goes from the perspective of her normal, so the handheld shots of the police officer are there as it shows that the protagonist views the police officers as not normal. The focus of the background of the characters emphasises the ability/disability of the characters, the background of the protagonist is blurry as it shows that she is lost in her mind whereas the background for the antagonist is more in focus as he is more mentally able than the protagonist.
The editing is adhering to the stereotypes of ability/disability as when the protagonist repeats ‘we leapt and we landed in the fresh fallen snow’ it cuts every time she repeats it to another clip of her saying it, this shows the destructed nature of her mind, and that things aren’t clean cut in her brain and that her thoughts are scattered, and after she has said it, it cuts to a final clip which is of an able character, this shows adherence to the stereotype that the able are more higher in authority so much so that the scene finishes with the antagonist instead of the protagonist.
Our representation of our primary social group of gender is positive as it shows a strong female protagonist which isn't usually shown in thrillers. The secondary social group was shown negatively as it created more conflict in scene also both of the social groups couldn't be positive as without conflict, the film wouldn't be able to hold interest.
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