AS Evaluation- Question 2

Within my sequence I included 3 characters throughout the scene. The first character and whom is only seen twice throughout the sequence is the boyfriend of the main character, his name is George. The main character in our clip is the innocent girl whom is home alone, her name is Heather. The final character is the killer, who kills George.
Each character within my sequence is represented differently and uniquely, each to portray different characters of everyday life. 


The first character we are introduced to is the main character in my sequence is Heather, she is portrayed to be an innocent girl. This is inferred through her clothing and actions. The clothing in which she wears is her pyjamas, I decided on pyjamas I believed it portrays her innocence fully as she is unaware that something is around her, it also makes her look extremeley vulnerable. Her actions also portray her innocence. When the audience are introduced to her, she is cooking and preparing food, this is refelctive of her age and as well as her innocence and independency. I included this character in my opening scene as I believe tht she is conventional to the thriller genre and would increase the audiences awareness to the sequence. Another reason to why my group and I included her within the opening is to appeal to the targetted audience, with her being 17 years of age and the target audience being 15/16, therefore being almost te same age, it increases the realistic feel of the sequnce and the dramatic feel.


The next character included in the sequence is the killer, although being played by a girl, we dressed the girl in to boys clothing in order to present the killer as a boy. We dressed her in a baggy jumper and jogging bottoms, we did this because the stereotypical clothing that boys wear are tracksuits. Also, because of the baggy jumper, we were able to hide the girls face successfully and hide the killers identity creating a myseterious feel. Throughout the sequence we were not able to see the killers face, this creates the character to be scary and leads the audience wanting to know more about him. When thinking about certain social groups within society, this character links to them. The mysterious and uncertaincy which the character represents, links to social groups as such groups also present mystery and uncretaincy to society. Adding such a dramatic character to the sequence builds to the effect of the dramatic twist.


The last character is murdered victim. As we are not shown this character often, he has no dialogue, the audience are unable to know what his purpose is. By showing him murdered, the audience are led to believe that he must of done something wrong or upsetting in order for this to happen. My group and I included this character into the sequence to present fear to the audience. When the audience see him dead, they are led to believe that something may happen to the girl. This character also links to certain social groups. 
Within our scene gender is represented in a stereotypical way. This is shown to us in many different aspects through most of the characters. The girl is shown to be oblivious to what is around her and that someone is in her house. This portrayal of the girl enhances the stereotype of girls, seen to be silly and oblivious. Again, the next stereotypical aspect of gender is shown through the killer. The killer is shown wearing a tracksuit with the hoody covering his face as we are unable to see his face. His clothing is stereotypical of boys as the clothing is associated with boys and what is typical of what they would wear. 


Each character appeals to the intended audience. This is because the characters within the sequence are teenagers and the audience we have aimed the sequence is teenagers, also. Because the characters and audience are the same age, the audience can relate to the sequence and feel a sense of realisation as they are led to believe that it could happen to themselves. The rating, my group and I decided, would be a 15. The narrative in which we had decided to go with for our final sequence, allowed for the audience to build relationships with the characters. The young girl home alone relates to teenagers of her age and her gender. With her being home alone, this can relate to many teenagers as they have been in the same situation. This then builds the fear as they could believe that it may happen to them. The characters may also appeal to the audience, I believe this as the characters and the audience are the same age group and will therefore be interested and what to know more and watch the thriller. The way in which the characters are portrayed could also appeal to the audience, the intimidation of the female character makes the audience interested and will want to know more.