Planning Characters - Miss Miller

Planning Characters

Purpose of Characters

Characters are need in the film in order for the audience to build relationship with the characters this is in order to be interest in narrative of the film that they are watching.  The audience creates a connection with the characters my the means of different camera angles and also the appearance of themselves as well. If the characters are alike the target audience it makes it easier for them to relate and therefore create a connection. If the characters are interesting and easy to be able to relate to then the audience will be interested in what happens to the characters throughout the narrative.

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 victim. She will be wearing female bed clothes of a child that will be stained with some form of blood or dirt. She will be very pale because she is cold from the whether with heavy black eyes. This character is very stereotypical but in our narrative the character starts of as conventional but then turns to unconventional because this character is the killer in our narrative we have taken this route because we wanted our scene to seem conventional but with a twist that the audience wouldn't expect. We thought this was the also the most relateable character for the audience because she is a child and would feel the duty of care for that person through young person(s) in the family. This is why we first portray this character as the victim. The audience are able to build a relationship with the character due to the fact that she is  vulnerable, she looks beat and also quite upset. Because the this the audience feel that they want to help this character because she is isolated from any other forms of help during the start of the scene. 

Characters - Teenage Male Thug Victim
This character will be played by Luke this character is a teenager who would be a stereotypical character from the thriller genre because he is wearing a hoody that will provide hidden identity for the character. The characters clothing will be ordinary clothes of a teenager/thug which will be the hoody, tracksuit bottom or jeans with trainers. Alike the other character and is stereotypical but at first is conventional because the audience sees this character as the killer at first through the use of different camera angles etc. But then turns unconventional because he is the victim of the opening scene. The reason for this is the audience will see him as the killer not the victim but also because they are not particularly seen as the weak character through the whole of the thriller genre. We though this was also quite a relateable character as the target audience of teenagers will be able to relate to this because they may have experienced gangs or people in hoody or because they are portrayed as dangerous through the media for example the London riots. 

Evaluation
 I do think our characters are conventional to the thriller genre because they are stereotypical of the thrillers as they are widely seen across the genre. But because they are not in convectional roles they are quite unconventional. This in my opinion will add a element of twist to the narrative that the audience will not expect will have a massive effect on the switch of the audiences relationship with the characters from strong to weak for the blonde female killer and weak to strong for the teenager. These characters would help put emphasis on genre of my opening sequence because they are very recognizable characters that are always normally seen throughout the genre.

I think by making the audience build a relationship with the little girl  before revealing that she it the killer, is so that the audience create for themselves a greater emotional impact when the girl reappears, this is as they had previous created quite a sympathetic bond with the character they feel deceived when it becomes apparent that see is the killer as they did not expect for this character to take on this role as they expected the man will be manipulated by various camera angles to be more dominant and controlling over the small
defenseless appearing girl.

I think that the use of our very specific characters it will make our sequence more interesting due to the fact that these characters are not that widely used across the thriller genre. There are some thriller films that use the killer as a child such as orphan. By doing this I think the audience will be engaged further as it is still a conventional narrative but will the use of the child becomes more interesting due to the fact that a child is more individualistic than a common adult serial killer.

In addition teenagers/young adults are widely used across the genre as victims this can be seen from such thriller films such as scream. I think by using this particular age group we are able for our target audience to relate even further as they probably have younger brothers or sisters that they have the duty of care for. If they do they can directly relate back to this scene as they can see the connection between thriller film and real life,as the teenager goes in search of the girl once she has gone missing, which will make the experience for interesting for the audience as they can imagine what they would do if they were placed in that situation for themselves.

I found this planning very helpful with my characters because I did have a clear understanding of my characters but now I know how my characters are going to look because of there costumes. Also I now know how I want my characters to be represented throughout my scene and how they should be shown to the audience and how the audience should relate to them. Now I can go into filming knowing confidently about my characters. Without this planning I would not exactly know how my characters should be this is why it was very helpful.