Planning characters - Miss Miller

Characters in a film are used for plot conventions or to drive the plot forward, more importantly they're used for the audience to pay attention to someone or something within the plot that the audience can build a relationship with. When characters are performed well by the actors is makes the audience feel as if they are just watching real people react to these situations.

Cathryn is the opening sequence's victim, she is 16 and her background is that she is a student. Cathryn is stereotypical to the thriller genre as the audience get the feeling she is a victim as not much about her background suggests she is central to the plot also this is only an opening sequence, however the audience will sympathize with her as they know her fate. The audience establish a relationship for her because they feel sympathy towards her character and because she falls right into that criteria for our target audience as she is a teenager. The narrative will begin with her so it is quite important and also what will happen to her will be the major starting point of the narrative.

The antagonist has not got much to talk about, he is an antagonist which makes him conventional to a thriller and he is a male but the age is unknown and his background is also not known. As said before, his character is an antagonist and has all the different traits like a hidden identity, uncertain age, no idea of what he looks like. However the enigma behind the character is what the audience will relate to about him, they have no idea who he is so they suspect that it is somebody throughout the entirety of the movie, the audience then feel sensation of creepiness that the antagonist could anyone in the film, that he is always there. The antagonist is also essential to the plot because the is who the audience would focus on most, the fact that this character could be out there killing again.

In conclusion I think both characters display the conventions of a typical thriller well. The victim Cathryn should be who our audience feel for and relate to throughout the opening sequence. I think that the planning has been very good as it has given me a clearer understanding of what our characters are trying to portray in the opening sequence.