Planning Characters- Miss Miller

The purpose of characters within film is to engage the audience by telling the story line in a dynamic way. The characters need to be down to earth and realistic if you want the audience to connect with them as well as the film. The characters need to be in the right environment depending on the issue of the film for it to be a successful film otherwise the audience wont understand the story line. The audience want to be able to put themselves in the characters shoes that's why its important to make sure its realistic and the scene is suitable for the characters. The audience always have great sympathy for characters as they relate to the audience, therefore thrillers are highly successful for building bonds between the characters and the audience. Its important that the characters are shown for who they are so the audience understand why they are part of that film. Its important in the film that the characters have to resolve an issue to fully interest the audience until the end. You can easily do this by having few characters in great detail so the audience understand why they are there and build relationships. The film is all focused around the characters so you need to have strong characters for it to be successful. If a film didn't show characters feelings the audience will easily become bored therefore the film will be unsuccessful. Successful thrillers have strong characters in which they need to resolve issues therefore when planning our characters we will make sure we create them in high detail.

The Victim
We are only using one character in our thriller as we wanted just to have one strong character which the audience can relate to and to focus on. Also by only having one character the audience will straight away understand who the main focus of the film is and wont get confused throughout the scene. We have chosen the character to be a victim as its conventional to a thriller film as all thrillers have at least one character who gets victimized. We have chosen the character to be the victim instead of the killer as you couldn't pull of having one character in the sequence which is the killer as it wouldn't make sense. We also decided just to use one character because its easier to film with one character and it will quicker to film. It will be easier for the director of our team to direct one person rather than a few people meaning that our opening sequence will be successful. The victim is a 13 year old girl who looks innocent with typical blonde hair. We've decided to use a young girl with blonde hair as its very conventional to the thriller genre and very stereotypical. The blonde female victim is very conventional to a thriller as she looks really innocent which builds more of a relationship between her and the audience as they will feel sorry for her more. She will engage the audience as she will look possessed after having water which will interest and engage the audience. The audience may also feel sorry for her but however they may feel different and get a feel that shes mental which will build a tense atmosphere and build a relationship between them. The age of the girl is important because they are more likely to feel sorry for her building more of a relationship between them. We wanted our thriller to also be a different then typical ones so just by using one character makes our thriller more interesting. We wanted our narrative to be different so with one character makes it interesting for the audience. We have chosen this particular character as she will be able to engage the audience into watching the film as she is a very different to normal characters in victim. We wanted to have this particular character so the audience stay interested throughout and to show the different types of people in one character. We also chose this character so people will be asking questions meaning they will want to watch more. She will create enigma and keep the audience fascinated. We just decided to use her instead of two characters as she is a very strong character and we didn't want to have two strong characters.

- my character

I believe my character is conventional to the thriller genre because she looks young and innocent which is very typical for a thriller to have.To emphasize the genre of the sequence I will make it clear to the audience that the character is victim so they know that the genre is a thriller as that is the type of character in thrillers. Also i will make sure that the victims look innocent so the audience don't get confused from the beginning. Planning characters before filming was very useful so when we film we can start straight away and film quite quickly. It was also useful so the group know for definite what character is in our opening sequence and wont get confused.