Character background

After checking out a website I've got an idea of how to do character research which will help me when doing mine on the characters me and my group will use in the opening the minutes to our thriller. Below is a few bullet points i took from the website which will guide me in my character research.

• A main character who is driven towards achieving a goal
• An opposition to your main character who will hold your main character back from achieving their goal
• A fight (literal or metaphorical) between your main character and their opposition
• An ending which answers the questions "Can the main character achieve his goal?"

The above points familiarise with Claude Levi-Strauss, narrative theory about binary oppositions e.g. conflict between two things such as good/bad, light/day etc.

Main character

• Mandy the main character will be an innocent looking teenage girl with a bad past, who tries to overcome that past but has been reminded of it due to a recent situation. Because of this recent situation she has to use her past in order to change her future for the better. But as always there's something/someone in the way...

• The attacker/stalker who won't be shown in the opening three minutes will be a significant person who Mandy knows of but doesn't realise until later on, when all the clues start coming together. He will have had something to do with her bad past and wants he to remember it for some specific reason we don't know.

 Character background: Jenessa

Cultural background


Ethnic- Black British




Social- Class background




Religion?- Christian




Education- Studies: Psychology, Sociology, English Literature, Science in society.



Occupation- Student

Character background: Abiola

Ethnic- Black British




Social- Lower middle class




Religion?- Christian




Education- Studies: Law, Business studies & History


Occupation- Student

Character Background: Richard



Ethnic- Black British




Social- Lower middle class




Religion?- Christianity




Education- Studies: Sociology, Business & Media Studies


Occupation- Student





The Time period


The thriller my group will be doing is set in the current period we are in now. This is because the audience will be be able to feel more involved and up to date with whats going on in this particular time period.

Location

Our film will be located mainly in Enfield, beause the group, actors and I are familiar with these settings. this cuts down the amount of research will would of had to do if we were to use a setting which is unknown to us and we know how Enfield is so we can encorporate that into our film. Also It is unwise to write about a location that we've never been to before even though its possible. It just requires a lot of specific research. The location affects clothing, attitudes, pace of life, accents, etc. There won't be no dialouge in our opening so accents wont be heard but we will try get across everything about location through the film.