Planning Characters - Miss Miller

The main reason for needed a plan is to ensure that you're organised and have a clear mind set of what to do, it would also prevent any unplanned things from occurring and would ultimately make the thriller more successful. Mainly because it would ensure that our characters were represented how intended and to make our thriller seem more conventional as the characters would look typically conventional to the thriller genre; such as using make up to make the girl appear more pale than she actually is resulting in her looking younger and more vulnerable.

The purpose of characters within film is to engage the audience by telling the story line in a dynamic way. The characters need to be realistic in order to connect and build a sustainable relationship with the audience. The characters need to be in the right environment depending on the issue of the film for it to be a successful film otherwise the audience will not understand the story line. The audience want to be able to put themselves in the characters shoes that's why its important to make sure its realistic and the scene is suitable for the characters. The audience always have sympathy for characters as they relate to the audience, therefore thrillers are highly successful for building bonds between the characters and the audience.

Its important that the characters represent their true qualities so the audience understand why they are part of that film. Its important in the film that the characters have to resolve an issue to fully engage the audience until the end. You can easily do this by having a few characters portrayed in great detail so the audience understand why they are there and build relationships. The film is all focused around the characters so you need to have strong character personalities for it to be successful. If a film doesn't show characters feelings the audience will easily become bored therefore the film will be unsuccessful. Successful thrillers have strong characters in which they need to resolve issues therefore when planning our characters we will make sure we create them in high detail.


The Victim - We will be using one victim in our thriller as we believe it will create the best conventional atmosphere. The victim will be female mainly because we believe that females are the most conventional to a thriller as they're often seen as vulnerable and targets within thrillers. She will dress relatively simple to convey her innocence and the fact that she is just a normal girl. Our thriller will be unique to others as we only have one character, this will allow the audience to fully understand the narrative. It also helps build a relationship between the audience and the characters within the film as they're feel sympathy for the girl as she is being perceived as vulnerable and alone which would be conventional to a thriller as it builds tension and suspense among the audience.