Planning characters - Miss Miller

Characters are important to any film, without any characters its nearly impossible to have a narrative, characters are people in films that the audience to relate to and create emotional links with to make the film more understanding and to create empathy. Especially in thriller films, the characters in the film are similar to the target audience so that they can relate to them and feel their emotions during the film, when the characters are in danger or a fight scene for example this creates excitement within the audience fear for the protagonist which ensures that the audience don't get bored.

In our thriller opening our first, and most important character is the protagonist, acted by Cleo, she is a blonde babysitter who is vulnerable and the same age as our target audience so that they can create an emotional connection. She is home alone which is also conventional to a thriller film and in our opening scene you can see how nervous she is when she says "Alice?". She is wearing normal, modern day clothes to show that the film is set in the modern day which makes her character more relatable to the target audience as they can see it as being themselves home alone. She is very innocent

Our other main character is the antagonist Alice, she is a little girl who is possessed, this is mysterious as the audience wont suspect a little girl to be a killer. This tension and mystery is conventional to a thriller and keeps the audience enticed and also makes them question why a little girl would be a killer. When Alice is under the lamp post it creates a very eerie atmosphere for the audience and makes them fear what will happen to the babysitter when she goes outside.

Our main characters have a huge effect on our opening film as they relate to the audience to evoke more emotions such as fear and enigma to make the film more enjoyable. Also the narrative of the film wouldn't go very well if the characters weren't chosen and make correctly to fit the genre of the film and create an emotional link between the characters and the audience.