Planning: Characters

Choosing our characters:

• The woman protagonist - Helen Williams. We need a woman protagonist becuase we noticed that in other Horror/ Thriller films that we researched, the protagonist is nearly always female. Not only to stick with the convention of having a female protagonist, we also thought that we should choose a female because men think they are more able to overcome threat more easily than a woman and so our audience would be able to relate to it more this way. Also, our storyline is about a mother putting her son up for adoption to continue with her life not knowing that he is coming to seek his revenge. Therefore, our protagonist had to be female to fit in with our storyline.
  
• The boy antagonist - Nick Webber. We need a young teenage boy to fit in with our storyline because the background to our Film Opening was that the boys mother (main woman protaganist) put him up for adoption at birth and is back 15-16 years later to seek his revenge. Therefore, we need a boy who looks 15-16 who looks like a typical teenage boy to fit in with his characteristics and the storyline.