Thriller Production: Character Profiles

    In our original idea, we decided to have both a female antagonist and victim. We were going to use these characters to both follow and challenge generic thriller conventions.
    Upon reviewing our raw footage - under advisement from our teacher- we later decided that our antagonist wasn't very fitting for what we wanted to do with our thriller production; so decided to change to a new, male antagonist character.


Bonnie

    Originally, we were going to have a female antagonist named Bonnie. We decided on this name as it is a feminine name that comes from the Scottish word "bonnie" meaning "pretty, attractive"; hoping to create an ironic juxtaposition from the connotations of the name with the nature of an antagonist. we also chose this name in reference to Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (Bonnie & Clyde) - who I have included in my 'Female Serial Killers' contextual study. 
    
    Bonnie's costume was inspired by that of Richard in 'Dead Man's Shoes' - incorporating the army jacket and gas mask. We decided to use fairly dull colours to try and follow the convention of having the antagonist in dark colours -creating a cool, iciness about the character, reflective of her personality- and added pink gloves to try and create a contrast to this; reinforcing the femininity  of the character. We wanted Bonnie to have a fairly similar costume to Sam - the victim- as to reflect the fact that Bonnie is trying to 'blend in' with others, and seem 'normal'; as many real life psychopaths try to. We used a gas mask and hockey stick - along with the military boots - to try and make the character appear to be threatening and unnerving. Thus, making it clear to the audience that this character is the antagonist of our narrative. We later decided to change our antagonist to a male character as we didn't feel as if the character of Bonnie looked or felt threatening enough for our thriller production.  

Sam

    In our narrative, we have a fairly ambiguous female victim named Sam. We decided on this name as it is a fairly common unisex name, which makes it seem as if the victim could have been anyone - hopefully evoking tension within the audience by making them feel as if it could well have been them in Sam's position.

    We wanted Sam to have a similar costume to Bonnie as we wanted to reflect the fact that Bonnie was trying to 'blend in' with normal people. After we decided to change our antagonist to a male character, we decided to keep Sam's costume as it was because we still wanted to include the 'Dead Man's Shoes' inspired costume; but to use it in a very different way for this character. We decided to 'flip' the idea of Richard's style of clothing being used for the antagonist to the victim as in our narrative, there are points in which it seems as if the ambiguity of Sam as a character briefly leads the audience to question whether or not she actually is the innocent victim they were all lead to believe she was.



Ian Moone 

    Originally, we had a female antagonist called Bonnie; but as we felt the character wasn't quite what we wanted for our thriller production, we decided to change our antagonist to a new, male character. We decided to call this character Ian Moone after Sqweegel, a character in an episode of the same name; from the 11th series of 'CSI'. In the show, Sqweegel is an enigmatic male serial killer who goes by the alias of 'Ian Moone' - an anagram for 'I am no one'. As our antagonist is also very enigmatic - wearing only dark colours, following the victim and never revealing his face until the end of our thriller production and also watches and attacks victims in their own homes, much like Sqweegel; we felt that this would be a very fitting name.

    We wanted Ian Moone to have a costume composed of only dark items of clothing, to portray his cold, calculating nature. The use of a dark costume also helps to reinforce the feel of enigma about the character, making him seem very shadowy and shifty; which would be very beneficial in helping him to execute his devious and repulsive actions that are soon to unfold. This would help the audience to identify that Ian Moone is the antagonist of our narrative, hopefully causing the audience to feel disgust and distrust towards this character.