how does your media product represent social class?

Question two:
CLASS:
our film is set in a middle class house on a normal street- not in a housing estate or anything similar so you can automatically guess that the family is quite well off.
you automatically get the idea that the childminder is the mother as she comes across serene, collect and comfortable. The person who actually turns out to be the homeowner is represented as a more working class character in the very beginning, she is dressed in black from head to toe not revealing much class but the childminder who is painted as the homeowner is dressed in a high neck floral top and a black skirt looks alot classier and more well off. although, it isnt until later that you realise that she is just an employee of the less typical looking middle class mother.

ETHNICITY:
our middle class family where casted as mixed raced family which goes against typical conventions of an economically comfortable family. generally these types of vunerable families are white american/european, we went against this as our genre is psychological thirller and we didnt want our viewers to be able to predict the characters storylines and destinies without actually watching the film.

GENDER:
in our opening two minutes we decided to use all women and a young feble boy, this automatically puts all of our charcters in a vunerable position. stereotypically victims are young and are women and putting all of our main characters in the opening paints them all as victims. we decided to use a young boy, because a young female would have instantly represented a victim with films like the exorcist and the orphan using young girls as the victim.. not many plots use a young man.
using the woman as the villan also goes against conventions as we were trying to stick with it being a psychological thirller and wanted our audience to think as much as possible about our film opening.