Character profile

The Detective:

Luke Crane playing as the detective will be dressed in a typical attire that reflects a detective job role; simple suit with a long jacket, we have chosen these clothing due to the audience will be familiar with the look as we see this type of clothing on famous detective characters such as Sherlock Holmes. Interpreting this into our opening thriller will benefit us as we don't have to explain too much on the characters job role and maintian the myterious nature of the film. Overall the audience should already be knowing of Luke's role due to his typical clothing of a detective, and of course reinforced with him walking around the crime scene investigating. We have chosen one of the roles to be a detective to reinforce our crime/thriller genre, we normally associate crime with a detective and so this character would work perfectly. Relating to the thriller conventions, we can see that a detective works perfectly to add mystery to the atmosphere, as we can put the audience into perspective of the detective as he is as unknowing as the audience watching on the scene shown.

The innocent victim:

Sam Payne will be acting as the innocent victim. The innocent victim will be seen as quite vulnerable and unknowing, we will do this by making him casually dressed with a white shirt. The white shirt will connote purity and innocence of the invidual and the casual attire will reinforce that he is almost unprepared on what will eventually happen. Adding an innocent victim into our film opening will allow us to heighten tension, in which is quite typical in a thriller, also the innocent victim adds anticipation as we can put the audience into perspective and make them feel as if the murder was actually nearing to them.

The murderer:

We, the audience will not see much of the murderer in the opening, however the murderer will be wearing some specific clothing such as a military vest and overall dark clothing. The military vest is to hint ideas of the persons past and what they might do as a living and the dark clothing will be used to connote aspects of death and anguish. The murderer is quite typical in a thriller as this character is key to increasing tension in scenes due to they bring danger in the most unsual and unexpected times, allowing us to include jumps into our thriller, making the audience intrigued into what is happening. Bringing aspects of danger to our thriller will keep action flowing.