Planning character representation- Miss Georgiou

When planning to film our narrative, in our group we planned how we are are going to present our characters and how we are going to represent them to the target audience. The characters will be represented to the audience by their clothing, body language, hair and make up and background.

The main character within our narrative is an 18 year old female named Olivia Harris. She is a white British girl who lives in England. Her Dad works abroad most of the year, her Mum is constantly busy at work and she is an only child. Hence why, during our narrative, Olivia is home alone. We have made Olivia be home alone during the scene as we believe it increases the fear and it also makes her seem vulnerable and seen to be the victim. It also makes it seem that if something bad is to happen, she has no one to help her. Again, increasing the fear and tension. Olivia previously had an abusive relationship with male named Luke Moore. The purpose in why we have included Olivia in our narrative is to give the scene a sense of reality, making the whole narrative more realistic. She is the victim within the film which is also why she has a purpose within out narrative. She appeals to the audience because the audience in whom we are trying to target, are the roughly the same age as her, making the audience feel vulnerable too and also on edge to what may happen.

The next character in which we have included is a 19 year old male named Jack Edwards who is Olivia's boyfriend. Again, he is a white British male who lives in England. He is a severely bullied boy in whom lives with his younger brother and has to care for him as his dad is an abusive alcoholic and his mum is dying. Through the way he is portrayed and the way in which he acts within the scene, we are able to see that he is nothing like his father and is a nice boy. Ultimately, he is seemed to be a caring, loving character who is innocent. The purpose in why we have included this character is to portray him as innocent and loving, also, to increase the shock to when he gets murdered as the audience wouldn't expect it. This character creates a relationship with the audience as we sympathise with him, feeling sorry for him and therefore hoping that nothing bad happens to him. He will appeal to the audience as they will see him as a teenage boy, similar age to the target audience, and some people will be able to relate with him.

The third character used within the scene will be the killer. He is a 21 year old male who's name is Luke Moore. He is the ex-boyfriend to Olivia Harris and is extremely mentally ill because of his troubled childhood with his abusive and alcoholic parents. He became very abusive towards Olivia, which is why the relationship ended. He is also very paranoid due to the amount of drugs in which he takes. We have made him older than the victims to make it seem he is suprior over them and ultimately to make him intimidating over them also. Luke is very important to the scene as he is one of the main characters and he is the person in whom murders Jack. This makes him an extremely singnifigant character and is made to seem that we should be scared and weary of him. The purpose of including him within our narrative is to create fear and suspense and making the audience feel on edge. However, we believe that he will not have any appeal to the audience as he is a horrible character.