Characters Representation (Hartt)

Characters Representation

The Stalker:

Name: Hidden Identity

Age: 20 years oldGender: Male

Race: White British

Purpose of the narrative: The purpose of the stalker is to kidnap the victim he is obsessed with. He constantly stalks her where ever she goes and at one point in our narrative he texts her off of a unknown number.

How will the character appeal to the audience? The aim of this character was to make the audience dislike the stalker. This was because the he is is seen as the evil character in our narrative and we have used the conventions to create suspense shock and surprise based around this character to make it effective. The audience cannot see the stalkers facial expressions which is conventional as it stops them from building a relationship with the character.

The Victim:
Name: Dipika Sharma
Age: 16Race: Indian
Purpose of the narrative: Dipika is an ordinary teenager who is walking to her friends house to collect some homework when she starts to receive threatening text messages. She ignores them as she thinks it is just someone playing a joke on her until one day she wakes up in a dark room tied up. The stalker kidnapped the victim whilst she was walking through the forest on the way home from her friends house.
How will the character appeal to the audience? The character of the victim appeals to the audience as she is an ordinary 16 year old who is perceived to be vulnerable. Dipika is a female which is a generic convention in thrillers. They are seen to be the weaker gender and this is displayed in our characters. The audience can see her vulnerability though the use of costume. She is wearing white which connotes her innocence. The audience builds up a sympathetic relationship with this character through the mise-en-scene conventions used such as facial expressions. The fearful facial expressions allows the audience to relate and experience the situation the character is in making our thriller effective.


The Victim:
Name:Ayesha AliAge: 16
Purpose of the narrative: Asian British
How will the character appeal to the audience: The victims friend appeals to the audience because like the victim she is seen as a vulnerable character in the situation. She was unable to help prevent her friend from getting kidnapped and therefore the audience feels sorry for her. The relationship with this character and the audience isn't emphasized as much as the other two characters as the role is less important.

Each character representation we used in our thriller was to help create surprise shock and suspense. This will make our thriller successful as the are appealing to our target audience allowing them to relate to our characters.