Planning characters - Miss Miller

They purpose of characters in the film is to add and creative a narrative, but also give the audience something to focus on, and something for the audience to build a relationship with, engaging them into the film.

Our main character in the sequence going to be the victim, we are going to make her a female because this is a stereotypical that females are innocent, therefore the audience will begin to emphasise and build a relationship with the character. We are also going to make it so that the character is blonde, again the hair colour of blonde has the denotation of innocence, this again builds up towards the empathy the audience will have with the character, because she's innocent the audience can begin to feel sorry for her as she is being chased by a killer and they can begin to feel that she shouldn't be in the situation, therefore causing empathy. We are also going to make the victim a student, by doing this it means our target audience as they are of they age of which they would still go to school as well, this helps them build up a relationship with the character and again can emphasise her situation. Females are often used in the thriller genre as victims as they are portrayed as the weaker sex as they are seen as weaker than males, due to this they would be less likely to defend themselves in a situation where they encounter a killer, this means our victim is stereotypical of the thriller genre.

The only other character in our sequence is the killer, a tall male. Throughout we are going to represent him as being deranged, and will never reveal his identity, this creates an enigma around him as the audience will begin to wonder, who he is, and why he is following the girl. This will cause the audience to engage in the sequence as they would want to know who it is and why they are doing this, and will carry on watching in order to discover more about the killer. Masked killers are stereotypical of the thriller genre as they are often used in the thriller genre, for the very same reason of creating an enigma around the killer.

Overall, now that we know about the characters, we know how to represent them inside our thriller sequence, this relates to our narrative as by using characters that the audience can easily relate to, by making it easy for them to relate to the audience can build a greater relationship with the characters in the scenario, helping to build up the tension in the scene and meaning the effects would impact the audience more. This is instead of using famous actors in which the audience would not be able to easily build up a relationship.