planning characters- Miss Miller

Planning character.

Purpose of characters

Characters are used in films for the audience to build a relationship with them, films need character to tell the narrative to the audience and good characters help make a better film. the characters in a film are there to have a relationship with the audience, when the audience have a relationship with characters, it means they care what happens to the characters, this can create emotion in  films, and for thrillers the relationship between the audience and the characters is used to create suspense.

 

Characters - Blonde Female Victim Killer

This character will be played by Hannah this character is a young child that is a stereotypical character from the thriller genre portrayed mostly as a vunerable or in danger, we decided to portray her like this as it creates a relationship with the audience as they want her to be safe if they feel that she is in danger at any point in the opening scene it will create anticipation and suspense. The female character will be wearing a white dress, with pale make up and dark eyes, she will also be holding a teddy bear, we decided to make her wear this as it shows the audience that she is young with the teddy bear, also the pale skin and dark eyes make her look upset and cold, this creates a relationship with the girl as they might feel that she needs help. The use of the blonde female victim is a theme in our own opening sequence, although only for the start, as we decided that we want to change roles of the characters, halfway through the girl is changed into the killer and the male is in danger, we decided to change the roles half way through as it makes for a  more interesting narrative, and will help to build suspense. We decide to portray the young girl as vunerable and feeble at first to get the audience to emphasise with her, so there is a relationship that is built, and then we change the roles once the suspense has built.

Characters - Teenage Male Thug/Victim

We decided to include a teenage male character as the some audiences will be able to relate to it, also the hidden identity that the character has at first will create a negative relationship with the audience as they are scared for the girl, and the male could possibly be dangerous, this was used to create suspense. The character is wearing dark clothing and has no specific makeup.

Evaluation 

Overall I feel that the characters we are using are good for the thriller genre as, I feel the use of a conventional character, with the young blonde female victim, this will help the suspense build as the relationship between the audience and the characters will be strong as the audience will feel sorry for the blonde young female. The male character is also conventional to the thriller genre, but the plot twist will be a good surprise for our thriller and will reverse some of the typical thriller conventions.

The planning of the characters has helped me get a better understanding of the characters roles in our thriller opening sequence and how i want them to be represented. From planning the characters like this I know how that the costumes are very important to how the audience relate to them and what the relationship between the characters and the audience is like which can effect the suspense in the film as the audience need to care about the characters for there to be any suspense or effect on the audience.