Our media product represents the social group of the working police. This is very common amongst thrillers and our thriller does conform to the stereotypical representation of the investigating units of the police as showing their struggle with the things they uncover whilst working on the force. We chose to represent them as the fairer more publicly concerned side of the force rather than the more manic justice obssessed police force in films such as the horror movie The Crazies in which they mindlessly follow orders in eliminating an 'infected' town. However we decided to represent this by giving the lead character of Jenna Smith a confliction to uncover the mystery of the photos for the benefit of society as many of the photos contain picture of the public unaware of the photos being taken. We chose not to represent their home lives and make it seem to the audience that they live to work as opposed to working to live a rich live outside their job. We also tried to challenge the stereotypical female ideal of staying at home looking after the kids and doing the housework. Jenna does not have children or a partner and the supporting male character who was played by Richard reverses the gender roles as he is less authoritative and more reliant on Jenna in a feminine way. We chose Karis to play this character as she looks quite small and fragile so that way when the audience arere shown to the character that Jenna's personality highly contrasts her looks and therefore, is more prominent. We based this around examples of existing powerful female characters in media today, such as Evelyn Salt in Salt (released in 2010) who stands up as a powerful female character, however is on the opposite side of the law to our character of Jenna Smith and does have a husband who she is worried for and leans on. 
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