Planning: Character Representation (Miss Begum)

Character Representation:

Character representation is very significant in the film making industry. The character representation allow the audience to understand each character in much more depth and detail. It is important to have characters witch different personalities and characteristics. The audience should be able to easily identify which characters are either the victim, protagonist or antagonist. 

Name: Carlie Cokell-Smith

Character role: Character 1, Girlfriend of character 2. 

Age: 21

Gender stereotype of role: Young female, attractive and innocent. 

Costume: Grey clothing, quite casual.

Hair&Make-up: Big curly hair, natural make-up, quite pale.

Body language: Confident, upright, slightly weak and vulnerable. 

Facial expressions: Angry, frustrated, upset, scared. 

Represented as: Angry girlfriend who is hurt by her boyfriends actions. 

Role within narrative: Arguing with her boyfriend after hearing he cheated on her. She attempts to kill him as he is unconscious, however, is stopped by mystery girl who walks in with a gun. 

Name: Lashane Williams 

Character role: Character 2, Boyfriend of character 1. 

Age: 21

Gender stereotype of role: Young male, attractive, suspicious, has a dark side. 

Costume: All black clothing. 

Hair&Make-up: Neat hair. 

Body language: Confident, masculine, strong, built, superior.

Facial expressions: Angry, frustrated. 

Represented as: Deceitful boyfriend who denies his wrong actions of cheating. 

Role within narrative: Arguing with his girlfriend over him cheating. Gets both girls caught up in the situation and nearly gets shot by character 1 (Carlie).

Name: Zelal Keskinbisak 

Character role: Antagonist 

Age: 21

Gender stereotype of role: Young female, attractive, intelligent, arrogant, selfish. 

Costume: All black clothing, choker round neck, hoodie covering her face, hidden identity. 

Hair&Make-up: Long straight hair, dark lipstick, quite pale and nails dark. 

Body language: Upright and confident. 

Facial expressions: Bland, emotionless, serious. 

Represented as:  A crazy girl in love with character 2 (Lashane).

Role within narrative: She gets ready to attempt to kill character 1 (Carlie). Is seen putting on her lipstick looking good and proud of herself. However, audience does not know if she succeeds. 

Overall, character representation has been extremely useful as my group have a clear understanding of what each character presents and brings to our thriller.