Character Profile

Lauren Butler- We have challenged the conventions of the trailer and have developed the genre by making the main character female. Often most thriller genres have the main character as the man for example; the butterfly effect, paranormal activity etc. We have kept with the conventions of having a brunette pale girls, especially in thrillers when the characters are often ghost like. Lauren Butler fit straight into the convention and has had previous experience acting in her previous media product. For her costume we kept Lauren in generic costume however we had supplied her with boots in order to create the camping gear that we wanted to create. Lauren was also confident and understood the narrative which is why she was perfect for the part too. Overall Lauren had been the best person to be the protagonist and antagonist. We had also used Lauren's face for both film magazine and movie poster as she was the main character for both trailer and ancillary text.

Ayyaz Mehmood- We needed a male character for our trailer as it fit into a narrative. As a group we decided that our trailer would not be as interesting or successful if there were no male figures within the trailer. Ayyaz dialect and accent has the stereotypical London Kent accent which our trailer had been sent in. The clothing we had decided for Ayyaz had been the same colours as Lauren, Ashleigh and I. A male character is essential for any movie and trailers, there are portrayed as the saviour or the hero when the plan becomes a problem. Unlike Ashleigh who is an introvert during the trailer, Ayyaz is an extrovert and is very outspoken who will fill in any silence during the movie. In every movie there is a mix of character personality and in this case Ayyaz will be the person who decides to go to the camping trip which would begin during the beginning of the movie but also mysterious as his personality is very different.

Ashleigh Fearne- Having another female had fit into the narrative of the group. We were going to have another male within the group but we did not want our target audience to presume there would be romance within the trailer which is why we decided to have Ashleigh within the group, also she is a group member and would understand the narrative than a person from the outside. Ashleigh is an introvert within the trailer which gives the trailer a further mystery as the target audience cannot read her thoughts or expressions. Ashleigh costume consisted of dark clothing but also generic clothing that a teenager would wear if they had gone our for a walk when they are camping. Ashleigh's height also represents the vulnerability of the group and allows the target audience aware that we are teenagers and not adults from her footwear choices, converses.

Rebecca Rahman- To fit into the conventions of thriller genre we had added another female character, often a friend of the main character as the camping trip had been strictly for friends showed in the narrative of the trailer. We also wanted to expand the ethnicity within the group so we can reach a bigger target market. This is what we had learnt during our research, the bigger the ethnic group the larger the target base. For the costume we decided as a group to wear darker clothes so we could fit into the conventions of our documentary thriller genre. Each character had to wear something unique for example; Lauren had her scarfs and I had my blue jacket this allow this to become a symbolic representation as the person who has the camera can notice the other character while they have the hand held camera for them. Overall each group member had been involved during the process of the construction of the trailer.