Planning characters representation - Miss Georgiou

The representation of characters is how someone is presented to an audience, how the audience judge someone by looking at their clothing, background and attitudes. In our thriller clip we will be using our characters to give the audience a feel of what the film is about by the way they present themselves.

In our group narrative opening scene we have 3 different characters, two of whom are played as the same characters but the audience would be unaware of this until the end, therefore could both be played by the same person. Our characters are: 

The little sister:

Name: Annie

Age: 10

Gender: Female, females are generally used as the victim in thrillers.

Race: Mixed race 

Background: Close relationship to her big sister, Ayesha. Their close bond will be portrayed through the flashbacks of happy memories between the two of them. In the flashbacks the girls are shown walking in the forest. Also, we see the little girl, Annie walking through the forest by herself, trying to uncover the events which happened which the viewers do not know about yet.

Purpose: She is going to be playing the victim. She will be portrayed as being innocent through her body language and facial expressions making her look sad and lonely.

How will the character appeal to an audience? The little girl will come across as lonely, confused and sad which will lead the audience into believing she is innocent and so may be the victim. They will therefore sympathise for her, meaning they are emotionally connected to her within the clip.

The Older Sister - 
Name - Ayesha
Age - 16
Gender - Female
Race - Mixed race

Background - She is the older sister to the previous character called Annie. They are very close which will be shown through the flashbacks in the clip. During the narrative, they go for a walk in the forest which is shown through the flashbacks. She is only seen in the flashbacks.

Purpose to narrative - This character will help to confuse the audience. They will begin liking her as she is close with her sister, but as the story develops and we discover that she may be the killer, the viewers may feel a sense of hatred or anger towards her due to the betrayal towards her sister. She is used to help create an enigma which is conventional to thrillers as it leaves the audience unsure of what has happened and so they question it and continue to watch to see what happens.

Killer - 
Name - Unknown / Ayesha?
Age - Unknown / 16?
Gender - Unknown / Female?
Race - Unknown / Mixed Race?

Background - Unknown - The killer could possibly be the older sister which would mean she is close to the younger sister as stated above. Or, if it is not the older sister then the audience do not know who he/she is as his/her identity is kept hidden. This creates an enigma which is very conventional to the thriller genre as it makes them eager to know who the killer is which keeps them engaged with the clip.

Purpose to narrative - The audience should react to the killer in a negative way. He/she should make them feel uncomfortable and should be responsible for creating all of the bad emotions the audience feel. This creates a huge shock when we find out that the killer could possibly be the older sister. The viewers should struggle to accept this as they thought they were two different people, which creates a sense of confusion.