How does your media product represent particular social groups?

On the whole, I feel our title sequence didn’t particularly represent any wide ranging social groups; it focuses on one person, a murderer. In reality killers come few and far between but in film and TV, serial killers and murderers are a common theme and have been for some years, with shows like Midsummer Murders, Dexter and Poirot. We tried to use this current interest in the genre to our advantage.

Those in society that are murderers are often portrayed as psychotic, which generally they are. We had to use this generic representation of killers in our title sequence to make it familiar to viewers. We did this by in editing using the Bad TV effect which made it look like static from a TV. This effect could be said to work in turn to the scattered and chaotic mind of a killer.

Traditionally, film and TV that focuses on a serial killer rarely reveals them early in the film let alone in the title sequence. We didn’t reveal his full identity though, keeping to dark, close up shots of the killer. This cinematography used keeps the secrecy of the killer, to not give anything away from them.