Society and the media usually represents teenagers negatively, nowadays they interact each other through shared characteristics and their similar interests whether they are good or bad. In our thriller we have included the issue of peer pressure and illegal drug use, we have also represented the teenagers student life in conjunction with their social life. We thought this idea would work well, as the media usually show teenagers doing drugs, drinking and smoking socially at parties in many films, and so we represented these types of teenagers. The media usually classify teenagers in typical stereotypes, and usually described them as wild party animals and immature law breakers. 
An example of a negative portrayal of teenagers are the young gang members in Eden Lake. The movie is based around their obnoxious behaviour as they brutally attack an innocent couple. However we subverted the typical representation of teenagers in our thriller made the dealer (who is supposed to be an adult but is acted by a 17 year old) play as the villain instead of the teenagers. On the other hand the similarities are that Diana and Brett both peer pressure their friend(s) into doing something they clearly don't wish to do, but eventually give in so that they fit in and don't look like a wimp, however their ways in encouraging them to do wicked things are different. Diana peer pressures Jamil to take drugs in a more direct, verbal way whilst Brett threatens his friends with violence and tell them that he will stab them, he does this so that they can carry as much blame for the wrong doings. The victims of the pressure eventually give in and participates in the afflicting psychical pain to the couple and recording the torture.
Brett threatens to knife his friend in Eden Lake
British Board of Form Classification
Fifteen
Many teenagers will be able to recognise and/or relate to the experiences of drugs and/or exams and so Gone is aimed at teens that are 15 and over. Furthermore our age certificate for our thriller is 15 because we decided after our audience research (click here questionnaire) that we found that the majority of people were 14-17, accordingly our thriller is appealed to people who are 15 and over. It was quite easy to represent young people as we our teenagers ourselves who have great understanding of the issue of peer pressure and how we are represented and so we used students in our cast to play as students and a teacher to act as a teacher, which was not very difficult for our group to find, also there was not much directing needed as we are all ordinary sixth form students. Also the location was helpful because it was filmed at our school and so the classroom environment we was looking to go for was available and simple for us to show.
In our thriller we have included both female and male characters, the seating plan in the exam room scene is not highly concentrated in terms of gender or ethnicity. The boys and girls are evenly spread out across the room and there are no students isolated, this shows that the environment of the Sixth Form community in our thriller emphasises equality. In the exam room equality is shown and everyone is relatively equal in terms of power, but this is only because there are rules in Sixth Form that everyone must follow. Notice how once they leave the exam room and there are no teacher in sight, Diana brings up the topic about drugs and starts to pressure Jamil into taking them. When they have left the boundaries there are no school rules to follow. You can tell that the male character (Jamil Nazarali) in our thriller is being pressured by the female protagonist as he anxiously feels pushed to make the choice of taking LSD.
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