To what extent does your thriller conform to the tradition structures of Representation?

In our thriller we followed the structures of representation, so that the majority of social groups would be able to understand and follow the ideas of the film. If we was going to challenge the structures of representation we would have had to focus on a niche group of people and follow their ideas of stereotypes and dominant ideas.

Our film followed Marxism in the way in which we reinforced the representation of the psychologically damaged, we represented this character through the mise-en-scene. However by having the film from her point of view challenged the dominant ideologies typically shown in films. As they are seen as 'different' to the majority of people, by giving her a voice in why she is like that and suggesting their is a reason behind her states gives people a different view.
David Gauntlett said that "artists play with the idea of identity in modern society", which I believe we have done as we have distorted the representation of our main character by giving her power of the film. A message behind this to our audience, is that people often ignore psychological issues in reality, and it should be brought to more peoples attention.

We challenged the structure of stereotypes in our thriller,as the main character is a mother but does not look or come across like a typical mother figure. Dyer said that "stereotypes depend on the different social groups", so we have tried appealing to different social groups by challenging her stereotype.
 Another stereotype we have challenged is the woman as the female we used is not portrayed through voyeurism. Berger said that "men act, women appear" which is not the case in our thriller because she is the main character, and in our opening no male characters appear. Having the point of view from a female character also reinforces the idea of feminism. In comparison to the majority of Hollywood films, where the main character or the point of view is shown from a male.

Baudrillard explored the idea of hyper-reality, which is what our character explored through her hallucinations. From the audiences point of view they have to resolve what is reality and what is hyper reality. The reality of the film, is the characters hyper real world, which confuses the audience as this is a post-modern characteristic of film.