Character Representation Post

Explain why it is important to have a variety of characters and various representations within a thriller film?
With the different characters you have many different personalities which all come together and make the story complicated or make it more scary. Having various characters playing different roles, it can misguide the audience to think that someone else had done the incident. This makes them get shocked when the real suspect is found out. Leading them to like the story more and tell people about the film.


Individually explain the characters representation of all your character in your film by commenting on the following.
Name -
Age
Gender
Race
Background
Purpose to the narrative
How will the character appeal to an audience
Include a still image of the character to support the points that you have made


The Village
There is an unstable character which is a convention of thriller films as they have problems so it adds more problems to the film which takes you offguard as you dont know whats going to happen with them as there spontaneous. Like in the opening scene when he starts laughing when noone else is laughing, we notice he then has a problem especially as he is scruffier than anyone else. As he is one of the first characters which is recognised in the film, it shows that he is going to be a main character and we should look out for him and see whats going to happen.
There are alot of children in the film which conteract the problems which they may face in the film. Children show innoncence which  shows they are going against the conventions of a thriller film. This may attract more people to see the film as they cant predict whats going to happen. This makes the audience shocked about what starts to happen in the film itself.
The women are at the front of the house sweeping while dancing. This shows that they are playful, and having fun. Which again goes against the conventions as you dont normally get alot of fun in a thriller film.
After the red rose is found in the corner of the decking and we realise that it is a problem from their faces and how they picked it up and buried it, we start to think what could actually be wrong with the rose being there. As the rose is red we see that as fear as its a strong colour for thriller films. This goes with the conventions but maybe to let the audience know that something bad is going to happen.
With a hooded person and hes surrounded by fire we then realise that he is the villain in this film, with his hidden identity we dont know whats going to happen still. And as fire is surrounding him we think that fire could be his 'weapon' which he will use to hurt someone.

The Women In Black
At first we get 3 little girls playing together with their dolls, first we see this is unconventional as it looks innocent and like there doing nothing wrong. But when they both look towards the camera and all start to walk towards the windows, dropping their dolls and standing on them with no respect like they had seconds before. We wonder whats going on behind the camera. As they step out the window we dont understand whats happend until we watch the rest of the film which is how they grab their audience by wanting to watch the film. We want to know whats happend to the children as we feel sympathetic towards the children. After they jump out of the window and we see the shoulder of a person in black we realise that maybe that was the person that was telling them to jump out the window. This still makes us want to watch more of it as its an interesting start which isnt predictable aswell.