Question 2

We have used two characters in my Film which is the young blonde female Orphan who wears a long white night dress and comes across looking very innocent at first as she walks along sadly holding a pink teddy bear. I Included this character in my thriller as i wanted the audience to think they had figured out what was going to happen in my thriller thinking a young innocent would get murdered when really it has a twist and she becomes the evil murderer. We also had our second character who was a young teenage boy who is wearing all black and has his hood up. I picked to choose this as my audience would be able to relate to this more as he looks like a normal young boy walking home which would create more tension and fright as they can relate it to a real life situation everyone has been in.

At the beginning Gender is represented in a stereotypical way as in the young blonde female is seen as sweet and innocent and vulnerable to everyone. Also the young boy who is dressed in black will be seen to be a thug and be dangerous. This then changes and the stereotype disappears as the audience notice that really it is the opposite way round. We decided to do this as it would shock and confuse the audience and make it unique to most other thrillers but also as it will also be conventional to the thriller genre but with an extra twist.

These characters will appeal to my audience as in my research into  audience as 62 percent of the people we asked were aged 11-20 which means they can relate more as there is a young teenage boy playing the victim. This means they will feel more connected to the film as they can relate doing something as walking home in the dark to their everyday life. Also as the people we asked 23 people out of 40 people we asked were male which means they would be able to relate to the young male more.