Representation of main character

1st Screening:

On the 7th February we showed our first draft of our trailer, 'Larkspur', to an audience of boys and girls aged 16-18 and we were really please with their response which they displayed to us through a questionnaire. 

Everyone that we spoke to really understood our main character and perceived her as abnormal and slightly socially different to most of the teenage characteristics that they are familiar with. 

We deliberately portrayed our character in this way through researching and watching Psychological Thriller films with a female main character who share similar characteristics to our main character that we have used. 

What we did: 

We casted a girl aged 17 who subverted traditional expectations of a teenage girl as she does not wear any make-up in the trailer, always looks natural and we dressed her in mundane clothes (white t-shirt, tracksuit bottoms) and made sure that her hair looked un clean and un kept. We did this by slightly backcombing her hair. 

In quite a few of the shots we have positioned her in a very simple and basic looking room and used binary opposition to show her differences by using a very decorative, girly looking room for the victims room. 

Additionally, throughout the trailer, our main character is always shown to be by herself whereas the victims are always with each other. This emphasised her differences with the other characters in the trailer and demonstrated her isolation in social life. 

The voice over that we used of our main character shows her possessive nature which intentionally makes the audience feel on edge and uncomfortable. The angry and distressed tone of her voice contrasts to the relaxed and natural speech of the victims when one says "He messaged me'. This further shows her differences from other teenage characters in the trailer.