Evaluation Q2

Q2

 

 

 

This character is the main victim of the opening of my thriller. I wished to convey a normal teenager who leads a normal life and is no different to the target audience I targeted. I feel this character was appropriate as the victim character as he is shorter compared to people of a similar age. This makes him seem more vulnerable compared to others. I have also chosen a male actor as the character as the stereotype of males is that they are stronger than females. However I have reversed this and used a male as the victim to show how strong the monster is compared to people. I have chosen this costume for the character as it is something that most teenagers will be familiar with as it is modern clothing and may create a type of empathy link between the target audience and the character. I have also chosen to use the red trousers and red inside of the hood to represent danger towards his character whilst he still represents the stereotypical teenager look. I have also chosen to use no make-up as the character needs to look like he normally would in an everyday environment. I also used the environment to represent the social group of teenagers to my audience as it is an area where there a lot of houses. This could be seen as representing them as teenagers are usually seen by adults, especially older adults, as antisocial and the area is built up and is a normal haunt for some teenagers.

I have chosen this character from “The Cabin in the Woods” as a basis of mine. I have chosen this as they are both dressed in a similar fashion to how some teenagers dress in the normal world. Compared to my character there are some similarities such as clothing choices. However, there are some differences between the characters. This character is seen to be unkempt as his clothes are rather grotty and fairly untidy compared to mine. I chose to change this as teenagers are seen to be like this but I have semi glamorised my character so he is not as untidy. Another difference is that my character is younger than this one. I have chosen this as it shows him as more vulnerable compared to an older victim and makes him seem weaker compared to others.

I also have taken influence from this character from “The Chernobyl Diaries”.  I have also chosen to take influence from this character as well. This character is similar to mine as he is shorter than the other males. This means that he is the most vulnerable and may be targeted first. This has influenced my choice of actor. I have also chosen to take ideas from the characters costume as he is also dressed in an outfit that is represent the teenagers-pre adult stage of life and is similar in that respect to my character. I also took the idea of red as use within the outfit to represent that he may be one of the first victims as red represents blood and danger.

I also used cinematography to present my character as vulnerable. I did this when the character was on the floor and taking a high angel of him. I took influence from “Goodfellas” as it uses a high angel shot to show vulnerability of the character. This attracts the audience as it also shows the character as vulnerable and this means they will either feel sorry for the character and will get the effect passed to them of being in danger.