Research: Character Representation Ms Heath

Character representation

Character representation is something that is really important to take into consideration when thinking about films. The reason why is because it allows your actors to act to the characters persona and its clear to the audience the story line of the film and what each character is representing. Furthermore if the personas of each character are clear then the audience is able to build a relationship with the characters.

To create a conventional and successful thriller trailer, It's important for the characters representation is clear and effective in the scene so the target audience can distinguish what each character is meant to be and what exactly they are meant to be doing.

The main characters that are going to appear in my thriller trailer are as follows:

•         1 Protagonist, Female, early 20s
•         1 Antagonist, male, age unknown

The antagonist is the one who is stalking the young woman and ends up killing her. This is conventional to a thriller film because of the character he plays. He gives very little about himself which makes it all the weirder with what he does. His clothes are dull and use dark colours so they can’t be seen by their victims and go give an indication to the audience that he is the evil person. He has an array of murder weapons shown in the beginning just to emphasize that he is a dangerous character and is not to be messed with. We went with using a male as the antagonist as in thriller films antagonists is almost always male and males compared to females look more dominant.

The protagonist is the one that is stalked and killed by the antagonist. This is conventional to a thriller film because she portrays a typical young woman and women are naturally seen in thriller films as easy, vulnerable targets. In the thriller films it shows her coming home from shopping and poring herself a drink. This is the part where the antagonist blindsides her and repeatedly stabs the victim until she's dead. She is then dragged to the table and is put so she's sat down at the table and is handed dinner like it is a date. The clothes she would be wearing would be bright because she is clueless to what is about to happen to here. Also she is very sociable.

Conclusion

To conclude, being able to analyse the characters from other thriller films has helped me and my group to analyse our characters in our thriller trailer more effectively as it has given us an insight to each of the characters personas and what they are meant to represent in the film as well as to the audience. The description for each character is helpful because it tells the actors how they are meant to act and what personas the are meant to take on when acting.