Our film is focused around military soldiers as they combat an extra-terrestrial threat. Therefore the group and social issues that we will represent will be soldiers and how they are affected by their experiences. We might represent how soldiers are both physically and mentally affected by their experiences, maybe through representing them as crippled, or developing PTSD after the events that they witness. We could potentially show this through a time skip, or maybe they develop issues immediately.
There is the option to have the monster be a physical representation of depression, anxiety or other types of mental health illness. By doing this we could be bringing awareness to that disorder similarly to the way that ALTER bring attention to disorders or social issues through visual metaphors or in some cases making it clear as to what they are trying to do. This is seen with some of their work such as Dual in that they bring attention to a mental illness, in this case it is duel personality disorder. We may take inspiration from ALTER's work to make our Thriller/Horror piece be more unsettling and make our work be more unique and memorable.
Our film will be primarily centred around the problems that veterans and soldiers face during and after experience on the battlefield, however we could try to implement an aspect of mental illnesses or social issues to help raise awareness.
