In our thriller we resorted to stereotyping characters such as ASBO’s, illegal immigrants, smokers and other groups victimised in society. Our disgraced ex-politician is represented as an upper class man from a wealthy up bringing. This is signified by his smart clothes and briefcase and the large building he walks out of. Politicians are looked down in society because they are all stereotyped as corrupted hypocritical liars. In our thriller we see Mr Paxton reluctant to be part of the show and refusing to have interviews. This signifies snobbery, another stereotype often linked with upper class and politicians. 
El Hadji is an illegal immigrant. He is interviewed outside while eating his food, he says “Only god can judge me” and does a prayer. This conforms of the foreign stereotype of being dependant on religion. Eating outside also suggests that he is not wealthy enough to eat out at a café or a restaurant so has to take his own food everywhere. El Hadji and Mr Paxton are both realistic stereotypes. I researched Chris Huhne, the ex-cabinet minister who put points on his wife’s licence. Typically, similar to Mr Paxton in our film, he tried to avoid all the journalists. People like El Hadji are seen everyday in the real world.
Smoker/depressed: Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. Everyone will at some time in their life be affected by depression -- their own or someone else's, according to Australian Government statistics. Not a lot of the media addresses this problem or portrays it within films. This is the reason we decided to add someone with this disorder into our thriller as we wanted it to reflect people in society so the audience connects with them, not just what is typically shown within the media. Smoking is a hugely discussed topic within different media as it also affects a large number of people and also affects the life span of most people, making people panic about it. About a third of the male adult global population smokes. Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths. By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will kill one in six people. We wanted to address the fact that smokers are becoming outcasts in some social situations because of the damage it does to them and the people around them. In social situations, they have to be abolished outside to smoke, away from the group of people. This view on smokers is just going to increase as more and more people quite as the group may become an undesirable minority. We wanted to show the social group of smokers as a negative thing because of the damage it has on peoples lives ands wanted to show people that if they didn’t stop they would soon be outcasts.
Homeless single mother: There are 3 million children living in a single parent household (23% per cent of all dependent children). Single mothers are often portrayed badly as they are stereotypically seen to 'sleep around' and not be very good mothers. The single mother in our thriller is portrayed positively as she is the winner so obviously smart. We have not made her too revealing so does not seem to 'sleep around'. We also made her out to be trying to be a good mother as she is going onto the show to earn the money for her child who she is clinging onto in some of the shots. She risks her life in order to make a better life for her child. We wanted to show her positively because we feel people views on single mothers are unrealistic. Single mothers are often made scapegoat for all that is considered wrong with society, they are shown to be a folk devil for the moral panic of what is wrong with Britain, why Britain is failing.
61,000 households (excluding the intentionally homeless) in England were officially recognized as newly homeless by their local authorities in 2010. We added the fact that our single mother is homeless because we wanted the audience to feel sympathetic towards her. We also made her homeless as, again, we wanted to make her seem like she would do anything to get out of the situation that she is in and also make her life as bad as possible to show that she deserved to win the show. We wanted to show that people in this situation are desperate as homeless people in England are often not portrayed to an audience, this could be because of the fact that the government often causes people to be homeless. We wanted the audience to see that there are people in Britain that are homeless and need help to get out of that situation.
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