character profiles

1. Character Profiles

2. Poppy

3. Poppy is the main protagonist in our trailer. She is 11 years old
and comes across as quite shy and timid. She lives in the
middle of Tunbridge Wells in a quiet home. She is very girly
(always wearing pink) and enjoys receiving presents from her
mum when she has enough money. There is an example of
this in our trailer when her mum gives her the doll. Poppy
doesn’t have any siblings so the doll instantly becomes her
new best friend and there isn’t a moment of the day that they
are not together. Towards the end of the trailer Poppy’s true
character comes out when she begins to act brave and stand
up for herself as she throws the doll away.

4. The Doll

5. The doll is another main protagonist of our trailer; as
the whole trailer and film is based around what she
does to the house and the family. The doll is a toy
usually targeted at girls which is why we made this our
target audience.
The doll wears a little blue and pink dress which
comes across as very girly. She has a very innocent
look about her giving the audience the wrong
impression that she couldn’t do anything wrong. This
also helps to make it seem more like a true story and
as if it could happen to anyone.

6. Mum

7. The mums name is Maria; this is not told to the audience in the
trailer. She is a stay at home mum who tries to give the best
possible for Poppy as a result of her being an only child. She
often wants to treat her with presents as she knows she can get
quite lonely without having any siblings and not many friends;
which is where the doll comes in.
She becomes possessed in the trailer so comes across as
scary to the audience. Seeing this happen to Poppy as her
mum, who is her only real company, is turning against her,
could be quite upsetting for the audience and could create
suspense in what’s going to happen. At the end of the trailer
the audience doesn’t find out what happened to the mum
making them want to go see the film.