Planning Characters
Character representation is essential to narratives as it is how someone is presented to the audience which gives an insight into how they might react according to their clothing, background and attitudes.
We used the planning outline of:
- Name
- Age
- Gender
- Race
- Background
- Purpose to the narrative
- How will the character appeal to an audience?
Victim
Name: Chelsea
Age: 18 years old
Gender: Female
Race: English, British
Background: Normal average girl
Purpose to the narrative:
-This character will be a typical university student who is living alone and is forced to believe that she is being followed and that someone is watching her, the villain has an unhealthy obsession with the victim and plans to marry her. If he cannot have her then no one can.
How will the character appeal to the audience:
- The character will appeal to the audience because she will be like any normal girl, so other girls are able to relate because of the way that she looks, acts and portrays herself through her clothes and her make up.
Villain
Name: Sylvester
Age: 24 years old
Gender: Male
Race: English, British
Background: British, Russian
Purpose to the narrative:
-The character is an ex-convict who has a strange obsession with the victim. The villain has a strange obsession with girls especially Chelsea as he has a picture of her and stalks her. He plans a scheme to capture Chelsea and potentially murder her.
How will the character appeal to the audience:
- The character will appeal to the audience as in the news you find that many ex-convicts have been let out of prison and some people have a strange obsession with people especially girls. Many girls in the news have been murdered because their ex-boyfriend or murder has a strange obsession with someone.
Friend on the phone
Name: Harley
Age: 18 years old
Gender: Female
Race: English, British
Background: Typical British girl
Purpose to the narrative:
-The character will be Chelsea's best friend in the opening sequence, who the victim will ring when she feels that someone is following her.
How the character appeal to the audience:
-The character doesn't have a very large part in the opening sequence as she is in the background over the phone you cannot see what she looks like.
How the character appeal to the audience:
-The character doesn't have a very large part in the opening sequence as she is in the background over the phone you cannot see what she looks like.
This post demonstrates basic planning techniques and this is because you have not considered the purpose of your chosen characters in enough detail. You have only briefly described two of your characters and you have not related to your group narrative either, which makes this very basic.
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