Characters

In our film trailer there will be three main characters. These characters include Luke- this is the main male role in the film, who is also seen as the villain of the film. He is the one that end up abducting the young blonde girl, named Katy. Ella, who in the film is called Kyra, will play the main female lead. Kyra and Katy are sisters and so Kyra end up trying to find Katy portraying Kyra as the hero of the film.

Caleb

Caleb is played by Luke, Caleb is our main character and we feel as he is foreseen as the villain he has the most enigma surrounding him and therefore we wanted to play on this by hiding his identity with dressing him all in black and hiding his face on some occasions with a mask. The mask we have made has distorted features and is painted black with white eyes. The use of the colour black was to signify the idea of death, mystery and evil as this is how we would like our target audience to see him.  

-Most of our inspiration for Luke’s character came from the film the purge. We have looked at many different film trailers for the thriller genre and the purge stood out to us because although it follows most of the normal conventions for a thriller genre it also break out from the rest of the mix. One part of the trailer shows a group of people knocking at a door, the man in the foreground is dressed in a suit wearing a mask with distorted features. This is where we took the idea of the mask from because we though that it created mystery and intrigued us more. The fact that he was dressed in a black suit also inspired us because we believed that this portrayed power and this is how we wanted to represent Luke. Although we did not feel that Luke wearing a suit in our film would be very suitable so we have decided to tweak it to be more modern, by getting him to wear black jeans a black t-shirt and a black hoddie. By him wearing all black this still created the feeling of evil, and it also looks quite smart meaning that we are still portraying the power that he carries as a character.

-In the purge when they are knocking at the door, we also noticed that there was a female stood beside the man dressed in white. We noticed that this was completely against the conventions of a thriller genre as we found, whilst researching, that white represents purity. This confuses us because the colour is telling us that we should not fear this character yet the situation that she is placed in means that we should, creating a juxtaposition. The white creates an even scarier atmosphere because it is so out of place. So for the mask that Luke will be wearing in the film we have decided to give him white eyes and mouth because we feel that this will make the mask stand out more and give him even more enigma.

 

Katy

Katy is the girl that gets abducted; I will play this character. During the making and planning of our film we originally had someone else to play Katy, but the filming schedule would not have worked out with her in it so we had to back track and realized I would just be easier if I was to play Katy. Although Katy is a main character she is not in the film that much, she is the one that gets abducted by Caleb and gets rescued by her sister Kyra.

Kyra

Kyra is one of main character in the film as she is the one that helps to save Katy. They are sisters and therefore the audience will be able to relate to this easy relationship because most people have a sibling relationship. She will be dressed in dark clothes in the trailer as we feel this give her the edge that she needs- almost portraying her as a tomboy. Because we would not nessicerially associate a girl as the hero of a story we are going against the conventions of any basic story line. But we though it would be good to have a female hero, as females don’t often get shown as very intelligent in films. The idea of Kyra comes from the film gone, where Amanda Seyfried plays a story female character and we really liked the idea of portraying a girl to be more masculine then films often make women out to be.

She will be dressed in hoodies and have minimal makeup on through out the trailer show we can access the grunge look that we are trying to portray in her. We also want to keep that female edge about her so she’ll wear skinny jeans and converse. We would like to show her figure so that people can still associate her as a female lead.

The girl playing Kyra is a young looking girl and we felt this would keep the innocence about her as a character, although she has short bobbed hair and this shows the tomboy off in her character- although we would like to represent her as a tough outgoing girl who would be able to stand her ground in situation like this.