Older Character - Influences and Ideas

In our film we would have three main actors who would be the ones to pull off the robbery. The older actor would be the leader of the group and the one in control. He should be a calm authoritative figure who the other members of the robbery listen to and take orders from. He should be shown to be all business and professional, however we should see a dark side of him which is shown when he decides that they need to kill the girl.

One major influence is Mr White from Reservoir Dogs as we feel that he holds the kind of gravitas that is needed from this character. We feel this is the kind of character that is needed as you can clearly see his calm nature and you care for his survival far more than any of the other characters. Another Harvey Keitel character, Mr Wolf from Pulp Fiction also follows the same outline for our character. In this film he again plays the older character who has done this kind of thing before and is a source of guidance for the other characters.However Keitel is probably slightly older than we would want for our character, though we can still use his characters for influences.

Another influence would be Liam Neesons' character from Taken. From this character we can take influences such as his calm nature which would be useful in the later parts of our film. Liam Neeson also has the older tough look that we would want.to be aiming for. As this character will most likely be played one someone's parent, Liam Neeson looks around the right age.

De Niro's character in heat plays a similar character to the one we are imagining. An extremely suave, who dresses well, something we should be thinking of. De Niro in this film looks around the right age that we are imagining, around 40 and therefore this is an excellent character to be influenced by. This character also is calm and composed which would be important for our character to do as he would be the leader of the group.

AF

Final Narrative Idea

• Intoduced to the three male characters, older guy (leader), younger guy (main character), middle (psychopathic)
• Show how the younger guy is a good person, with a family, just got caught up with the wrong people
• They are planning a robbery, decide on a house, scope it out, make sure its empty
• One night they go in, are in the process of robbing the house when they hear a noise and see the girl who's house it is, she's seen their faces
• They run and catch her, take her to a warehouse
• Tie her up and have to decide what to do with her
• Younger guy wants to let her go, middle wants to kill her, older guy unsure
• They argue and fight over what to do
• Older guy decides to kill her
• Take her out to the woods to dispose of her
• Younger guy lets her go to the surprise of the others
• They are forced to chase after her
• She's running away in the woods
• She's escapes and goes to the police
• Only tells them about the older two guys, leaves out the younger guy
• They get caught and the younger guy gets away with it

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Audience Research Prezi

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Audience Focus Groups

In each of the focus groups, they were shown a trailer and then asked question about those trailers. The trailers are ones which we are taking influences from.

Focus group for 17-18 year olds:


Focus group for adults about 7 minutes:


Focus group for adults about The Dark Knight:


Focus group for adults about Night Crawler


Focus group for adults about Reservoir Dogs:


Focus group for adults about Welcome to the Punch:

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Audience Research Survey

We decided to use Survey Monkey to conduct our survey. This was very useful as it allowed us to reach a wider audience by sending web links to recipients.

This is our survey below:

EEA Media Survey

We wanted to ask primarily questions about the action/thriller genre, to understand what people are looking for in films.

EJ

Theory: Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes is a narrative theorist who came up with 5 narrative codes which all films follow these are:

Enigma Code – The structure of puzzles and queries in the text and the way in which we are hooked into the narrative by the desire to find the answers.

Action Code – The ways in which we identify familiar situations and actions through conventions of language and the use of certain key phrases or words; we do not need everything spelt out for us, so from words such as “betrayal” and “love” we can decode plot elements

Semic Code – Refers to details about certain characters which enable us to build up a profile of that character

Symbolic Code – Refers to the way in which themes are developed through the use of recurring symbols usually to convey a message

Cultural Code – Details in the narrative that confirm cultural context, such as it’s location, when it’s taking place and the kinds of moral values, ideas and fashions that are associated with that period

In order to make our trailer appealing to an audience we must include at least one of the narrative codes stated above as it creates a link between the characters in the film and the viewer. In our trailer we are planning to utilizing primarily the Semic Code, but also the Action Code. We hope that this will create an interesting narrative which the viewer would wish to follow as they would feel a connection to the characters.

Barthes also had a theory concerning Readerly and Writerly texts. The idea is that the readerly text the reader follows easily, and the writerly texts make the audience work to construct the narrative for themselves. Usually a film contains both, a familiar structure for a trailer is: the first act being readerly, while the second act introduces a sense of the writerly, then in the final act, which contains a montage is heavily writerly, due to the fast paced nature of a montage. We wish to mostly emulate this structure as it will maximise audience interest and will contain a familiarity to the audience.

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Theory: Stuart Hill

Stuart Hall is a narrative theorist who came up with the encoding/decoding theory.

Hill stated that all texts have a preferred meaning that the director has encoded but the audience who is decoding the text may not read it as intended by the producer. This is because everyone has a different social and/or cultural background. Texts which are meant to communicate hegemony will be encoded so that they can be easily interpreted by the mass audience who will watch the film and attempt to decode it. The hegemonic position is where the consumer decodes the text in the same way as it was encoded, meaning that they perfectly understood what the director was trying to portray. However if the preferred meaning is blurred and the information which is shown to the audience is insufficient for the text to be decoded accurately then the reaction to that text would most likely be negative. This is something which is extremely important to us when thinking about our narrative and our audience. The preferred meaning is important to think about when we are encoding our narrative as we would like to restrict our audience to 15 and over. For us to do this, we must ensure that our preferred meaning and what we encoding is in line with the BFI guidelines.

AF

Theory: Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov suggested there were five stages to a narrative:

Equilibrium

A disruption of this equilibrium by an event

A realisation that a disruption has happened

An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption

A restoration of the equilibrium which may be a new or changed one

This is a very basic film theory and can be applied to almost any movie.

It does not, however, cover all complex events.

Todarov also suggested that there is a common narrative structure as he wrote eight different story lines that are used throughout most movies:

1. The quest (Indiana Jones)

2. Redemption (Groundhog Day)

3. Journey to Another World (Interstellar)

4. The Beast transformed by love - (Beauty and the Beast)

5. Solving of Riddles - (Se7en; Da Vinci Code)

6. Biter-bit (Oppressed who rise up - The Matrix; The Hunger Games)

7. Stranger Saviour - (Book of Eli)

8. Rise and Fall (Wolf of Wall Street)

Our film would most likely contain the Redemption storyline

EJ

Theory: Vladimr Propp

Propp, looked at the components of Russian Fairytales and found 8 broad character types that were reoccurent in all the stories he analysed:

The villain;

The donor (gives the hero some magical object);

The (magical) helper who helps the hero in the quest;

The princess (person the hero marries OR a dream or desire which is sought after in the same way);

Her father;

The dispatcher (who sends the hero off);

The hero/victim;

The false hero or usurper.

However these character types can be critisited, partly because they are so broad.

Our film would certain contain at least 3 of these character types

EJ

Certification

The Process:

The certification of a film can greatly affect the type and age of audience that come to see a product. For our research into audience, we have therefore looked at the possible certification of our proposed product and its target audience.  To first understand ratings of films we needed to understand the process of certification. This is carried out by at least two examiners on films that are due for theatrical release, and are judged using the published guidelines.  Decisions on certification are often passed onto the Senior examiner for final approval, but when examiners are in doubt or fail to agree, the product may be seen by a member of the board.  When more challenging products require certification, many opinions are taken into account before a final certification is passed.  When deciding a certification, examiners look at criteria such as sex and language, whilst also considering the context. The consideration of the context is important, as many films such as Memento contain the violence of a 12A, yet the psychological feelings evoked after watching make it an 18.  The aim of certification to protect younger audiences from media that may prove harmful to their well being, or hinder their age dependent development.  

Our Certification:

The common certification for films in our genre is 15, this is seen in some of our influences such as The Town. However, a film such as Drive (2011) was rated an 18, and in comparison The Dark Knight (2008) was rated 12A. For our own product we want to aim for a 15, as it will allow us to reach a wider audience who may enjoy the action/thriller genre, whilst also allowing for a certain level of violence or thrills to be in it. Furthermore, the largest potential market in the UK is from 15-25, thus meaning our product would be directed at this.

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Secondary Audience Research: Demographics

Reservoir Dogs:

This demographic clearly shows that this is an extremely popular film, with all ages (apart from females aged 45+) rating it highly. It’s most popular with males under 18 (which is a bit odd given it’s an 18) and as the ages increase as do the rating given. This is most likely due to the graphic nature of the film, which older audiences may not like as much; this is something which we aren't planning to be replicating. From YouTube the trailer has fewer than 500,000 views this is due to the film being from the past and therefore the hype has died down and nobody really watches a trailer from a film which has already come out. It is however shown to be a very popular film from the 97% thumbs up, this means that this trailer would be good to be influenced by.

7 minutes:

This film isn’t the most popular one that we’re looking at, but it is liked by both males and females aged under 18 and males and females aged between 18-29. This is our target audience, as our film would be a 15 and therefore this film is perhaps something which we should look at taking influences from. The film also had the same rating in the US compared to non-US user which suggests the film was relatable across all users and not culture-specific, something which we need to be aware off. With just under 2.5 million views on YouTube, this film clearly gained a large amount of awareness, and along with 93% thumbs up you would assume it would have been very popular, however the IMDB figures don’t support this, this may be because this film hasn’t come out in all countries and therefore the IMDB ratings may be inaccurate.

Drive:

This film is extremely popular across all age ranges and genders. This film was also highly praised for it’s visual style, which is what we are taking influences from. This film rated lower with females in every age range, by around .3. This however is most likely due to the violent nature of the film rather than the visual style. This data was also unexpected due to Ryan Gosling being the lead, who is generally very popular with the female demographic. It isn’t however a noticeably difference but we still need to make sure that we aren’t alienating part of our audience.  On YouTube the trailer got over 5 million views and only 588 dislikes showing the immense praise that this film received.

Nightcrawler:

This film received wide spread acclaim across all ages and genders. It peaked with males aged under 18 at 8.5. The rating was largely the same after 30+, at around 7.7. This is still a great rating even for older audiences. The style and tone of the film is something which we are using as an influence and therefore it is great to see that it’s so universally liked. The trailer on YouTube has the highest view count, from all the trailers I looked at, at 6.1 million and also has 95% thumbs up. This again reiterates the universal love for this film. Jake Gyllenhaal being such a respected and liked actor certainly brought in a large amount of viewers, which our actors wouldn’t bring so therefore we need to be wary of targeting the right audience.

The Town:

The Town is another film which is seemingly liked by all demographics. As this film is quite similar to our own, a heist film, the highest demographics are important to make sure we target the right audience. For The Town it was given the highest rating by Males aged under 18 and Males aged between 18-29. This is useful as this would most likely be a target demographic. It is also however liked by everyone, as it’s lowest rating was in the Female aged 30-44 category, this could be attributed to this demographic not commonly being associated with action/thriller, they however still found the film to be good and therefore it is also important to please a wide range of people in order to make the maximum amount of money. The trailer is also well liked, however I was surprised to find it having so little views after seeing the ratings that it was given.

Trance:

This film is slightly unusual in that the females have given it a higher rating, 7.1 than the males 6.9; I have attributed this to the lead actor being James McAvoy who is very popular with that demographic. The highest rating given was by females aged under 18 which was 7.7 closely followed by males under 18, who gave it 7.5. This shows the importance of having a popular and attractive lead actor, in order to attract a wide demographic. The film is also popular was people aged 18-29 with an average of 7.1, as this would most likely be another demographic we are targeting, this is important to note. The film is also slightly more popular outside of the US, 6.9 compared to in the US, 6.8. I think this is due to James McAvoy being Scottish and therefore attractive a large following in Britain. The YouTube figures also show that it’s a well liked film with 94% thumbs up, however I was again surprised to see a view count of only 1.2 million, as seeing how well liked it was on IMDB on the demographics’ which are most likely to go on YouTube. Perhaps the trailer didn’t do the film justice; this may be something which we look into at a later date.

 Welcome To The Punch:

This film received average reviews across all demographic apart from females aged under 18 where it got 7.3, 0.8 higher than any other. I think this is due to the lead actor of James McAvoy who is extremely popular with that demographic, this shows us the importance of getting a popular lead. The film was also well liked by males aged under 18, another demographic which we are aiming to target.  The trailer has a n unusually low number of views for containing such well known actors such as James McAvoy and Mark Strong, this I think can be attributed to bad marketing and outside factors as it still received a high amount of thumbs up and only 74 thumbs down.

Disappearance of Alice Creed:

The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a primary influence on our trailer and therefore it’s vital that we look at it’s demographics. Due to it being an indie film it has a very low number of views on YouTube, so therefore that isn’t something to be worried about. The IMDB demographics for this film are also quite deceptive as its biggest rating came from Females aged under 18 who gave it 7.2 and IMDB staff who gave it 7.8, however for the females aged under 18 only 8 people responded and for the IMDB staff it was only 4 therefore these demographics contain a far too small sample size to be valuable. It is however promising that on a wider scale, when looking at Males and Females overall they both gave it the same rating. The best age range for this film is people aged 45+, this is very interesting and perhaps this may be a niche audience that we weren’t expecting. The next best group was all people aged between 18-29, this is to be expected as the film is an 18 and this age range makes up the largest proportion of cinema goers.

BFI:

From the graph we can see that it’s a great decision to make our film a 15 certificate as according to the BFI the highest cinema admission per age group are 15-24 which make up massive 33% of all cinema admissions. This is very important to be aware of we were making a real film we would be aiming to attract the largest audience. The other table shows what kind of films had a 15-24 year old majority viewing percentage. As Kick Ass-2 and Fast & the Furious 6 are both similar genres to our own, this gives us confidence that our film would be popular within our target age group.

From this research we learnt a great deal of things such as our decision to make our film a 15 certificate, as then we can attract the largest possible demographic. We also believe our film would be more popular with the younger age group due to genre but hope that our style and tone would also entice people from other age groups to see our film. We have also noted how it’s important to get a James McAvoy kind of lead actor who is popular across all demographics and would hopefully boost our ticket sales.

AF

Creative Proposal Decision

We have decided to go with Ewan's Proposal. We thought that the style and tone along with the general narrative of a heist is extremely intresting. We have chosen however to go with a smaller main cast and instead have only around 3 main characters.

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Creative Proposals: Style and Tone

My Proposal

Each Act of the film and the trailer would be of a slightly different style and tone


Act 1 - pre abuse

• Light/friendly - show the beauty of the robot
• Slow paced editing
• Camera doesn't move much
• High key lighting
• All to portray an idealistic world which isn't actually real

Act 2 - abuse

• Still high key lighting
• Camera shaking
• Robot should always appear lower in frame than the humans, show how she is worthless - Ex Machina utilised this throughout the middle of thefilm to portray Ava as weaker than the other characters as did Silence of the Lambs when Clarice is talking to Hannibal
• Chiaroscuro should be used more to show the darkness
• Faster paced editing during the hit - come out  of nowhere
• However linger on the shocked expression for a bit longer than the other shots as it would be a shock to the audience as well

Act 3 - fight

• Montage - therefore fast editing speed
• Different lighting used - interesting to viewer
• Chiaroscuro used as parts of the fight would take place at night
• Camera should shake at points during the fight as well

The Ex Machina trailer has similar first and third acts, in terms of lighting and editing

Atmosphere - Should showcase a certain creepiness and darkness towards the end of the trailer to go along with the very serious themes
It should be a commentary on humans/what the future is like - which is what science fiction is all about and therefore it can go to dark places

Ewans Proposal
I want the style to be almost like modern film noir, examples of which being the Matrix, as well as Night Crawler, where they both include a lot of chiaroscuro in the way they are lit, and filmed. This should make the mood and atmosphere clear, in that I want it to be dark, sinister and mysterious. 

The atmosphere will be made by the setting mostly being at night time, which in the given trailer will contrast lighter scenes to present an element of horror. The atmosphere of night crawler is what I am aiming for, with the serious, almost scary narrative plot, and low key lighting.

The mood will be set in a similar way, as the dark shots, mysterious characters and plot will set it to be sinister and intense. I have been influenced greatly in this by the Matrix, as well as the Dark Knight (mostly the opening to the film).

Emma's Proposal

I would want the trailer to have a feel of film noir it. This would create greater contrast in the scenes and thus make the character being followed even more vulnerable.

I also like the style of welcome to the punch, where scenes shot at night have high contrast lighting and make the film feel very urban. As our own film will be set in urban London, this may be good to use this style and take advantage of the London architecture and lights.

Creative Proposals: Narrative

My Proposal

Outline for the plot of the film

• AI is created, extremely lifelike does all your own bidding
• Film centres on a normal family who get one, contains mum, day, children?
• At first all is perfect, AI is doing its job well and family are happy
• One day makes a mistake and the father hits her
• This continues for a while
• Eventually the creator finds out and tries to help/offer support to the robot
• Gives the robot the ability to defend itself
• Next time it happens, it attacks back
• A fight breaks out, the robot easily overpowers them
• Accidentally kills one - doesn't know it's own strength
• Then runs away OR decides to kill itself

Trailer Narrative - Follows a three act structure

Act 1

• Starts with a press conference, creator introducing the robot and what it can/can't do. VO through parts of Act 1
• Shows the family buying a robot and bringing it home
• Robot doing its job well; shown cleaning etc

Act 2

• Show robot make a mistake and being hit, show a scared expression on AI
• Robot with creator, looking at each other with an emotional hug

Act 3

• Montage, including:
• shots of the fight
• creator rewiring the robot
• different shots of abuse; maybe different forms?
• shots of screaming/crying etc
• final shot of montage would be the robot running directly towards camera
• Cut to black
• Titles come up
• Past titles scene? - back in confrence with creator answering a question, foreshadowing the film

Ewans Proposal

The overall film

• One heist leader brings together 4 other strangers
• They are set together with the mission of completing the given heist
• The setup and planning is followed closely
• They run into trouble before starting the heist with the police and small crimes
• They begin to execute the heist
• Key point of the film: never go in with someone who has more to lose then you do
• They get caught, shut into the shop they are robbing
• The one who has more to lose gets nervous… kills and runs
• Fights break out between the heist members
• Two heist members end up shooting the other two heist members
• The two escape, but it is unclear how

The Trailer

Structure

• 3 Acts
• Act 1: The characters are established, as well as the heist job
• Act2: Shots from the heist are shown, presenting the problem the heist members face
• Act 3: A suspenseful montage of action scenes to end on the outline of a body collapsing

Storyline elements to include:

• Relations between characters
• The planning of the heist
• The problem they are faced with
• Death of several characters… but not sure who
• Action scenes of the heist
• Never go in with someone who has more to lose then you do

Emma's Proposal
For my narrative I want to expand on the idea of obsession, having a character being obsessed with another. I believe that following a teenage girl would work best for this as it would emphasise her sense of vulnerability.

The USP would be that the Best Friend is actually the one with the obsession



Summary

• unknown antagonist has an obsession with the protagonist 
• Protagonist continuously notices a shadow following her and senses someone is there.  She receives calls and messages from an unknown source 
• Frequency of attacks increases
• Protagonist locks herself in at home and calls her best friend in fright as she feels someone may want to hurt her
• Discovers the best friend is the one that is obsessed with her 
• Screen goes black, screams can be heard

Act 1

• Middle of the night, we see someone cutting up photographs of the same girl and stroking them
• we are unable to see the characters face and the interior room is dimly light with a single spot light
• It is the next morning, we are introduced to the female protagonist, possibly a teenage girl, who is in her room getting ready to go out 
• She leaves the house with her headphones in, we see a figure in the far background walking 
• That night when she gets home, she answers a phone call from an unknown number, the line is silent 

Act 2

• The protagonist is curious as to who had called her the previous night 
• Friend comes round to her house 
• She tells her what happened 
• They sleep in separate rooms 
• Protagonist surfaces during the night to suddenly see the faint outline of a figure in the corner of her room, frightened and unable to move she closes her eyes thinking it must be a dream 
• Wakes up next morning frightened by the unnerving dream she had last night,  the friend thinks she is seeing things 

Act 3

• Now everytime the main character goes anywhere she feels as if she is being followed 
• We cut back to the dark room we saw in the first act and see a wall covered in photos of the protagonist and the silhouette of someone sitting in a chair staring at them.
• That night protagonist is home alone and gets freaked out by small things, relieved to see her friend knocking on the door and lets her in 
• They talk for a while until the friend says she has to go home, as she leaves the power cuts
• lights turn back on to see the 'best friend' is the one obsessed with her 
• Screams can be heard as the camera slowly pans back from the house and into darkness

Creative Proposals: Sound

My Proposal
Act 1

• In this act non-diegetic sound would be a piano, calm, soothing, shows the beauty of the AI and the technology. This is done is numerous other trailers and sci-fi trailers in particular
• Voice over in this act as well. The dialogue from the press conference would carry over through out the other shots in the act. This dialogue should be taling about the AI what it can do/and can't and show the shots of the robot helping

Act 2

• The music would stop completely during the hit, to be replaced by a screeching sound?
• After the hit it would start up again but faster and a much creepier tune

Act 3

• Fast paced - drums to go along with the montage, should be at the same beat - heartbeat
• screeching sounds used during montage? (classic sci-fi convention)
• Music getting faster and faster
• Then stop as the titles come up
• No music while the title are shown

Ewans Proposal

I want to include a series of sound bites in my trailer, where the explanation of what is happening is played alongside the footage of it actually happening. For example I wish to have part of the 'planning of the heist' to be a soundbite while footage of the actual heist are shown. This should allow for suspense to build up, before the soundtrack that has a bass like rhythm plays as soon as the heist fully begins.

As for the soundtrack, I want it to be similar to the Dark Knight, as shown below in the opening scene of the heist:

As well as this, I hope to include lots of sound effects, where there are deep 'booms' and cuts to allow for the sound bites, something that is used a lot in the trailer for the Dark Knight, as shown below also:




Emma's Proposal

Thriller trailer music has a varying style, to create a different mood. When the audience is required to be scared, eerie children's nursery rhyme music is often used to create a juxaposition to the images on screen. In comparison some thrillers, primarily action thrillers, have upbeat music following the images on screen. This builds suspense and makes the audience greatly anticipate what will happen next.
 

However this style of music may be hard to achieve as it is very advanced and as students we would struggle to produce such professional work. We would more likely be able to produce something such as the music below as it is compositionally much more basic, yet it is still able to create an unsettling feeling.
 

Creative Proposals: Characters

My Proposal

Creator -

• Most likely male however could be a female
• Needs to be extremely well spoken, can tell that he's extremely intelligent straight away
• Should wear a casual suit
• Examples for what he should act like are: Johney Depp in Transcendence at the start of the film and Indiana Jones
• He should also dress similar to the character in Transcendence with a suit and an open shirted suit

Robot - 

• Female
• Should be young, around early 20s
• Should act exactly like a human, even though she's not
• Just like Ava and Rachel in Ex Machina and Blade Runner where even though they are robots act just like humans
• Should wear normal clothing, dress?- should be innocent, nothing provocative, again see Ava

Father/Mother -

• Should be middle aged 30s/40s
• Middle class family
• Both wear different clothing in different shots - formal wear, suit/dress and casual wear - jeans, t-shirt to show progression of time
• Father should be a heavy drinker?
• Father should be loud/aggressive
• Mother perhaps a bit more passive but still horrible, abuses her in a different way?
• Example for the father is one of the dad's in Boyhood or the military father in American Beauty
• Or the father in Radio Flyer

Ewans Proposal

5 Key characters: 

ALL CHARACTERS ARE STRANGERS WHEN MET
But, not initially known, two join together and plot to kill the other members after the heist is complete.

1) The heist leader:
His identity is unknown, though is met through the phone and messages. His voice is deep and husky, and he has the element of being creepy and sinister. He should be played as though he is slightly insane, much like the Joker from the Dark Knight, dressed in smart, dull clothes. - creepy, scary, intense. (minus the face paint)

2)Heist member (1) - The guy with everything to loose

He plays a young, nervous man who is desperate for the money. Though it is not initially clear, later the rest of the heist members learn that he is a single father with a young child - desperate for expensive medications that will save his daughters life. His character should be like Mr Pink from Reservoir Dogs, yet slightly younger, and slightly more unsure of himself. He needs to be dressed more casually and speak in a hesitant voice. However along with these faults, when he is pressured he need to be aggressive and violent. 

3)Heist member (2) - The good looking, relaxed guy (1)   

Much like in Reservoir Dogs, this character needs to resemble Mr White, in that he is cool, relaxed, yet intelligent. He should be handsome, muscular and clearly the one in charge of the game. He is dressed in a smart suit, and his mask resembles that of a gas mask. He speaks calmly and collectedly. 

4)Heist member (3) - The good looking, relaxed guy (2)

Much like in heist member (2) this character needs to resemble Mr Blonde, in that he is cool, relaxed, yet intelligent also, but he is younger than (1). He should be handsome also, but with blonde hair, muscular yet knows his place beneath heist member (2).  He is dressed in a smart suit also, but different coloured, and his mask resembles that of a gas mask also. He speaks calmly and collectedly., and his character is very similar and gets on well with heist member (2). 

5)Heist member (4) - The smart one

He plays a slightly older and mature heist member, who resembles that of Jacob from Welcome to the Punch. He should be dressed similarly to relaxed guy (1) and (2), and talk clearly with an under tone of superiority to an extent. A mark strong kind of character. Mark Strong

 I want all main heist members to be wearing suits, similar to the style that of welcome to the punch:

Emma's Proposal

PROTAGONIST

I think the main character should be like your 'everyday girl', wearing informal clothing and acting relaxed.  An example of this is in Scream, with Drew Barrymore wearing relaxed clothing, mimicing a typical teenager at the time. Another example is 'Single White Female', which follows a very similar story plot to what i would like to create, having a female character obssessed with her friend. An adaptation of this film was made more recently called "The Roommate". Both of these film contain young 18-25 year old characters who are the target of the obssession.

ANTAGONIST

The anatagonist, whether male or female would be hooded when following the protagonist in all black clothing. This would make the audience less able to see the characters face, particuarly if shown at night.