The document discusses the characterization and representation of characters in a film trailer. The main character is a 17/18 year old teenager who uses drugs and is detached from others. Scenes will show his messy bedroom with drug paraphernalia to portray stereotypical teenager traits. The character unknowingly suffers from schizophrenia and will experience symptoms like hallucinations. During hallucinations, he believes a mysterious stalker is following him when no one exists. Minor characters will portray everyday people in backgrounds of scenes away from home.

1. CHARACTERS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIONS.
A2 MEDIA TRAILER

2. OUR MAIN CHARACTER
 The main character for our film trailer is a teenager who is aged around 17/18, and reflects the rebellious
yet down to earth teenager representation. This will be shown mainly through the fact that he has a past
of drug use (e.g. cocaine) and even though he achieves well in school, he has recently become detached
and isolated from everyone. The main character appears to look like a generic teenager, wearing casual
yet alternative clothing and trainers. This reinforces the teenager stereotype as the appearance seems
casual and easy-going.
 Another way the main character will reinforce the generic representation of a teenager is that his room
will be messy and untidy. In a scene in the trailer, he will be sat of the end of his bed and packing a bag
in his bedroom. The bedroom will be untidy to follow the stereotype that teenagers are messy and lazy
when it comes to cleanliness. Also featured in the bedroom scene will be some white powder (to
represent cocaine) and a card which has been used to grind it up; this reinforces the stereotypes that
teenagers dabble in the use of drugs.

3. SCHIZOPHRENIA – MAIN CHARACTER
 An underlying plot about our character is that he suffers from schizophrenia (he is unaware of this) and
we have researched deeply into the characteristics of someone who suffers with the illness. We will
include scenes where our character is going through some of the symptoms, such as hallucinations,
delusions and muddled thoughts. We have also researched and observed different roles in film and
television to see how metal illness is portrayed so that we can have our character played correctly.
Examples of characters I studied and researched includes Stacey Fowler from EastEnders who suffers
from Bipolar disorder, Susanna Kayson from Girl interrupted who suffers a nervous breakdown and
overdoses.

4. ‘STALKER’ CHARACTER
 During the main character’s hallucinations, he believes he is being followed/stalked by a mysterious
figure. He believes that the person is from his past of taking drugs, when in reality the stalker doesn’t
exist ad is a product of his hallucinations caused by his schizophrenia. We wanted to go with the
stereotypical stalker look of a figure that appears to be in all black clothing, such as a hoodie and jeans.
We want to make the stalker seem as mysterious as possible so that the audience would believe that the
main character is in trouble. Below are examples of stalkers who appear to be mysterious black figures.

5. OTHER MINOR CHARACTERS
 As our plot mainly focuses on the main character, there will be little different representations of other
people. We aim to include characters in the background that represent ordinary and everyday people,
for example parents, children, dog-walkers etc as they are people who are seen everyday. These maybe
featured in the background of some of the scenes, such as those where the main characters are outside
and away from home.