Planning Characters - Miss Miller

The purpose of characters in our opening sequence is to make scenes more effective, allowing the audience to build a relationship and then sympathise for when the victim is in danger. It is important to plan characters before filming because as a group, you can get an insight towards how conventional the characters will be within the opening sequence. 

Brittany

This character is the main character and plays a big role upon the opening sequence as she is in every scene. This character is conventional towards a thriller film as she is the typical female victim, to represent her weakness and vulnerability. She is 15 years old, as she is extremely doing, this is suppose to represent the innocence of her charateristics and her lack of knowledge with the world. By lack of knowledge, this is meant by Brittany not really understanding what is wrong or right. Her appearance is young, beautiful and blonde, making tha udience sympathise towards this character easily when she is in danger. As she is a Likeable character, the audience feel sorry for her as she isn't fully award towards how much danger she is actually in. During this degas ting situation she is in, this student was before dedicated towards studying for her school work of GCSE's. In the sequence, as she never has any school work with her, interprets towards the audience that with this stalker situation she is experiencing, has really affected her and she cannot think of anything else but that. 

Carol

This character is the protagonist of the sequence, the hero that saves a random teenagers life from attempted suicide. Towards the audience, this character comes across very comforting and caring, which makes it more devastating when she is murdered. She is a female character and quite young but not as young as Brittany so it is acknowledged towards Brittany and the audience that she has a sort of role model in her life and for Brittany to know what she's experiencing is not ok. She is around 20 years old and wears neutral knitwear colour to represent her caring personality. Before she was involved in this situation, she volunteered at a dog shelter, helping the employees walk the many dogs, this is where she sees Brittany, when she is walking some of the dogs. This is the character that Brittany is trust worthy to, the only one she connects to, which a,kes it even more heart breaking towards the death of Carol.

Steve

This character is the antagonist of the opening sequence, the one in which has made Brittany's life miserable. This character was suppose to be kept towards the convention of a thriller of hidden identity, so the audience do not get to bond towards this character and more towards Brittany. No other characters has ever seen this stalker before except Brittany. Even though the death of carol of framed up on Steve, the audience do not know for certain if it was actually this character, or it was jut an assumption, leading more towards the mystery of the opening sequence. The personal appearance of this character is tall, masculine and strong build which makes this particular character more intimidating towards the audience and sympathising and empathising more towards the danger of Brittany. As you never we his face, as the audience constantly see him in a black hoodie, shows hidden identity and little relationship is build upon the audience and this character, which then enphasises and expands on the bond with Brittany as the audience turn against this character as he is a troublesome character. I think this is an interesting character as this could be a made up character, and Brittany could be the mentally unstable character from the stress of her school work. This could be interpreted as she is a very paranoid character and she only ever seems to be ale when seeing this antagonist. 

Runner

This runner is only used in one scene to highlight the paranoia Brittany is experiencing within the situation. This character does not have a name as he is irrelevant towards the rest of the sequence, but used as an almost prop to show bbe trust issues Bruttany has gained from this experience. He will be in the sequence during one of the flashbacks when a brittany is walking home from seeing friends in an alley way when she has a feeling someone is coming after her, representing her panic, when she believes it is the antagonist and he gets his closest to her, she notices it is just a friendly runner on his daily run. This character is going to be wearing running clothes, bright luminous colour, which juxtaposes Steve's dark and mysterious outfit to show he is a friendly character which mean no harm.