1. In the process of making our villain
we decided that we wanted someone
that was covered up and didn’t
reveal their identity, we got
inspiration from the film ‘Choose’
where the killer wears a hood and
dark clothing, he also wears a mask
so that his victims can’t see his face.
In the film ‘Choose’ the killer had a
past that created his hunger to kill
people and make them choose their
fates this is what we wanted to use in
our film but alter it to fit into our
storyline.
The social group that we had in mind
was teenagers because the public as
people that are violent and have no
respect for anyone other than
themselves and their friends so this
was the age group that we were
aiming for normally represents them.
Most teenagers these days tend to wear hoodies and especially people that don’t
want to be caught by the police because it conceals that person’s identity well.
The gender we chose was male because they are the more commonly known as
villains in thrillers rather than women because they tend to be the people that
are being held hostage or don’t have control over the situation. In the film
‘Taken’ the daughter is the one that is being captured so we were driven away
from having women as the villain because they aren’t normally represented as
the dominant and evil person.
There is a similarity between the two characters in their personality because
they are both very intelligent people and know how to be avoided by the police
or anyone that is looking for them. For example in choose the character never
has his face revealed throughout the film until right at the very end and this is
what we were aiming for when we created our character, we had him wear a
balaclava to conceal his face showing only his eyes. By not showing the
characters face it doesn’t give the audience any hints of what his body language
is and how he reacts to killing people or seeing people in distress.
The character links into the target audience because we aimed this film towards
teenagers between the age of 15-19 and they are used to seeing people dressed
like this and how they tend to act so therefore they feel sympathetic towards the
character rather than feeling hate towards him.