Planning: Character Representations

Planning: Character Representations

 

In Thriller movies certain characters hold different purposes and give the story meaning. Characters need to be read and understood by the audience.
Character's representation are how each character is being presented in a film production towards the audience. It is important because having the right actors to play the roles that are suitable based on how they look and their acting skills can create a lot of different meanings and will be based on the audience to judge on the characters. It is also includes different personalities within the characters in a film as the audience will have their own connotations and view points on each of the characters. This will helps the viewers to decide whether he or she is a good character or if they like them or not.

Character's representation can be shown through body language, facial expressions, voice tone and appearance that need to be relatable towards the narrative

 

Victim- In our thriller the character of the victim will be played by a young white female, this is because through research I found that this was stereotypical and conventional to the thriller genre. It is stereotypical because a young white female possesses characteristics which show her as quite timid and weak, therefore the audience will also expect them to behave like this therefore have sympathy towards them.

 

NAME: Carlie Cokell

AGE: 15
GENDER: Female
ROLE IN THE FILM: Female Victim
COSTUME:
FACIAL EXPRESSION: Blank/ Clueless
BODY LANGUAGE:

From important research, I found that representing my female victim in this way was conventional because the stereotype shown is that women are weaker than man and that they are feeble and helpless.












Antagonist- In my thriller I will be playing the role of the antagonist, I am a black male 6 foot 1 in height with an athletic build. I am filling this role because conventional antagonists have a rough build or frame similar to mine, this will make the character of the antagonist even more intimidating and fit the conventions of a thriller film

NAME: Javel Robinson
AGE: 19

GENDER: Male
ROLE IN THE FILM: Psychotic Ex-Boyfriend
COSTUME: White T-Shirt, Black Jeans, Black Jacket/ Hoody
FACIAL EXPRESSION: Distressed/ Disturbed
BODY LANGUAGE:

Research: Questionnaire and results

I created a questionnaire in order to identify what people expect to see within a thriller movie, this helped me to identify the people that I handed out my questionnaire to were people of the age 16-34 this is because this is the age group of the people that I have targeted my thriller for, this is because the narrative applies mostly to them.

Below is the questionnaire that I created:

 

I handed the questionnaire out to various people who all fit within the age range and I received their feedback

 

 

 

 

Here are some of the key findings from my questionnaire:

 

This graph shows me that that most people feel worried after watching a thriller film. This has helped me gain a general understanding of how someone will feel after watching my thriller.

 

 

This shows me that people prefer to see thrillers take places in locations such as houses, this has helped me because I know the location I should choose to shoot my thriller.

 

This information tells me that people prefer to see thrillers that have a theme based around romance, this tells me that I should write a narrative based around romance.

 

This graph shows me that people prefer to see male antagonists, this has helped me in choosing the roles for the characters in my thriller.

Pre-Production Paper work

Pre-production paperwork

 

 

Before filming could be done we had to ask premission to use certain locations to film in/ on once we gained permission we then had to take out the correct safety measures to ensure no damage would be done on anyone or property.

 

This is the Location Release form, this was made to ask the owners permission of use/ access to the location.

 

This is the Release and Consent Agreement, this was made to ask permission of the parents or guardians of any cast members involved with the production

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the groups filming schedule, this was made to ensure that all crew and cast members knew when they would be needed for filming.

 

This is the Location Recce it was made to give an brief idea on how to travel to and from the location and where the address of the location is. all crew members and actors and actresses were given this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the risk assessment, this was made to ensure that all risks have been assessed and measured to ensure safe filming.