Character Representations (Miss Hartt)

Character Representation

The Stalker ( Main Character )

Name: Hidden identity
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: White British.

Purpose of the narrative:
In our thriller film opening, the purpose of the stalker is to keep stalking and harassing a girl that he is very obsessed with. He keeps his eye on her and follows her around to many different places until he finds the right time to capture her and take her away to his apartment. He gives the victim a few signs that he is coming for her, for example he sent her texts messages relating to what she is doing at that point to scare her, but the victim takes no notice of it.

How will the stalker appeal to the audience?
Me and my group think that the audience would dislike this character because he is a the evil character in our thriller movie. This character is the one that creates all the shock, surprise and suspense for the audience and we have put the stalker in black clothes to show that he is the evil and dark character in our movie. We keep the stalkers identity hidden to prevent the audience building a relationship with such an evil character. 

 

 

 

The Victim ( Main Character )Name: Dipika Sharma.
Age:16
Gender: Female

Race: Indian

Purpose of this narrative:
The purpose of the victim in our thriller opening is for the audience to feel pity and sympathy for her seeing as she is just a normal teenage girl trying to live her life and out of no where she gets stalked and kidnapped. Although the stalker has been giving her signs that he is going to hunt her down, for example by receiving threatening text messages, the victim decides to ignore all signs seeing as she thinks that its just her friends playing a prank on her and also she just doesn't want to believe that its true.

How will the victim appeal to the audience?
We think that the victim would come across to the audience as a character that should be sympathised with seeing as she is just a young teenage girl trying to get on in life but is going to get kidnapped for no reason at all. We dressed the victim up in all white to symbolise purity and innocence and we also done many close up shots of the victims face and facial expressions to allow the audience to build a sympathetic relationship with her.

 

 

 

The Victims Friend.Name: Ayesha Ali
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Race: Asian British

Purpose of the narrative:
The purpose of the victims friend in our thriller opening was so that the victim had someone there for her that she could call when she was in danger and also for the victim to have a purpose for walking around at different times of the day to allow us to get a camera shot of the stalker following her. So we decided to have the victim walking to her friends house to pick up some books. The friend seems like quite a vulnerable and naïve character as well as the victim.

How will the Victims friend appeal to the audience ?

Me and my group don't think that the audience could build a relationship with this character as well as they built the relationship with the victim seeing at the victims friend is only in our thriller opening for a short period of time. However when the victim is getting stalked, the first person she calls is her friend Ayesha which could make the audience think to themselves that the victims friend could be a very reliable person.