Planning: Character Representations - Miss Begum

Character Representations

- 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

Female Victim

Character Analysis:

- This is a character from my thriller, she plays the role of the female victim. She is white, attractive and innocent looking which is conventional and stereotypical to the thriller genre. She is not very tall, small, physically weak and looks inferior. Her body language looks relax and comfortable within her own zone and her facial expression looks normal and enjoyable with what she's doing. Furthermore, her clothes is in white colour which portray her as innocent and vulnerable. This will helps the audience to easily identify her as the female victim based on the stereotypical of the female victim, she is also attractive which will persuade the viewers to watch and feel more sympathy towards her character. I have chosen to use her because she is perfect for this role as we imagined our female victim to have her figure and looks like her and is also conventional to the thriller genre as the victim roles are normally for female. It is important because the victims are usually weak and innocent which portray this role more to make the audience feel pitiful towards the character who play this role.

Male Antagonist

Character Analysis:

- This is a character from my thriller, he plays the role of the antagonist. I have chosen to use him because he is perfect for this role due to  his outstanding acting skills and also fits with our imagination of how we wants our antagonist to look like and is conventional to the thriller genre. It is important because this role requires actors who have strong figure and look superior which portray this role more to make the viewers feel frightened towards the character who play this role. He is tall, violent and looks superior which is conventional to the thriller genre. His body language looks mysterious and secretive, his facial expression looks scary and confident which shown that he is ready to kill. This also shown as the iconography that he's holding which is a knife to create fear and builds up tension. Furthermore, his clothes is in dark colour and hooded up to cover his face which makes his character looks more scary and more mysterious and makes the audience wants to find out more about him. This will helps the audience to easily identify him as the evil character as they will be scared towards him and anticipates bad intentions coming from his character.

Steoreotypical gender roles within the thriller genre

- The thriller genre tends to have stereotype for each of their own characters purposely to create different connotations and emotions towards the audience that are attracted to this genre. For instant, the main victim role is mostly play by female, this is because the thriller audience normally don't want to see the female to get discriminate, abuse or attack which is a advantage to this genre as it will make the audience feel more sympathy and pitiful towards this character and leaving them questioning themselves in their minds. On the other hand, the main antagonist role is mostly play by male, this is because male have stronger figure and look more powerful towards the female gender. Having this gender as a villain chasing after the female gender which is the victim makes the antagonist looks superior and creates fear and build up tension towards the audience as they would be curious to see what would happen to the victim and be afraid of the antagonist at the same time.

Conclusion

- These are the character that we wants to have for our original thriller production.