Character Profiles.

Within the film opening we are going to introduce three of the main characters with some dialogue and another main characters but only for a brief second without any dialogue. The main characters will be the mother, father and the little girl, and then we have the brief encounter with the villain.

During the opening of the film we will see four different news reporters three of which will be in a studio and one out in a field where the last sighting of the girl was.

I have thought about the types of people I would like to play these eight characters down to there clothing, hair colour and personality that comes across to the audience.

Little Girl.

For the little girl I would like her to have long brown hair, not too short about 10 – 13 years of age. Her personality has to come across to the audience as being bubbly and lovely the type of child that would have lots of friends. She would need to be loud and clear when reading the script and would need to be able to take direction, I did think about having a younger child but due to the taking of direction it would be better for her to be 10 – 13. This is a picture of a girl who is in the media already she is the type of child I would like to play the part in my film.

Mother

I would want the mother to have brown hair, and in there late thirties to early forties. Again she should have a bubbly personality, caring and very mothering. She needs to be very loud and clear in the dialogue and needs to be able to take direction. This is a picture of what I would the mother to look like in the film.

Father

For the character that is the father I would like someone who can play a serious part as well as being kind, caring and fun. He needs to be very business oriented. He needs to be tall with brown hair and between the ages 40 - 45. This is a picture of what I would like the father to look like.

Villain

The villain has to be of average height, big built in the arms and body, between the ages of 40 - 45. He has to have a fierce personality which would be revealed during the rest of the film when he is properly introduced to the audience. He has to have a deep voice to make it sound more frightening for the girl playing the part of the other character. This is a picture of what I would like the villain to look like.

Within the opening we see four different news reporters I have got pictures of what I would like them to look like. I would like them to be between the ages of 25 - 45 so they can give a mature and serious performance.

News Reporter 1

News Reporter 2

News Reporter 3

News Reporter 4

Comparison of my ideas to other films.

I have looked at two psychological thrillers and analysed them, I have then compared them both to the ideas that I have for my own film.



I've analysed up to 3 minutes.
The titles that have been used are written so that the words are shown backwards on the screen. Slow and quiet music has been used to make the opening seem eerie to help with the genre of the film. Non-diegetic sound effects have been used of birds and crickets as well as creaking noises again this adds to the genre of the film. The opening is set in a forest, its fast pace as we see the running of the main character. The opening has a great use of open narrative.



I have analysed up to 2 minutes.
The titles that have been used are very basic and are just black block capitals. The opening is set in a graveyard and then changes to a road which then helps to keep an open narrative as the audience doesn't know what is going to happen. It starts of black and white and then blurs into colour. The opening has music of which we hear trumpets and then diegetic sounds of church bells and children singing.

I have chosen to analyse these openings as they are both completely different from each other but they have some things that I can compare to my film opening.
The Titles in the silence of the lambs are written backwards to go with the theme of the film, I think that they must make more sence during the rest of the film.

This is the same as our film as we want to use a handwritten type font to go with the theme of the tick list.
Within the opening of straw dogs it starts off with the scene in black and white and we want the part with the CCTV footage in black and white as well.

We want to start the opening with a montage of news reports with flashes of photos of the missing girl, CCTV footage of when she was last seen, and information of what she looks like. We then have a clip of the girl in her bathroom cleaning her teeth when she bends down we see a villain in the mirror and then when she gets back up hes gone. The audience is then shown a conversation between the parents and the child at the breakfast table before the girl goes to school. We have a good open narrative and the music we are going to use we start of slow and quiet and as the montages get quicker the music will get quicker as well and it will also get louder.