Casting - character sketches.

The girl; A seventeen year old girl, brown hair, sixth form student, enjoys going out; the story shows the girl after a night out on prince of wales street in norwich after she is very drunk and is being followed by a man, whilst she is walking home by the river in riverside, norwich. Firstly, we believe that the man, is acting as her protector; offering to walk her home and giving her hand when she falls over by the river, however we see how he turns and becomes the villain not the protector. This portrays the girl as being; vulnerable and perhaps adhering to the stereotypes of an eighteen year old girl. We have portrayed the boy as being the protector to start with in our film; by portraying him as kind and caring towards the girl, we acheived this by; the close up shots of both their hands coming together, where the boy helps the girl up, after she falls over by the river, however when the audience realise that the boy is the actually the villian and the girl is the victim; we show this to the audience by showing shots of the boy at the start of our film, standing behind the girl, looking very suspect, which creates ambiguity, however when the boy and girl meet the audience is led to believe that the boy is the protector, because of the dialouge and close up camera shots, which help the audience to feel more envolved in the story.

The boy; A 20 year old boy, therefore is slightly older than the girl, which in theory makes him more mature, he is also a student at university, which although the audience do not know this, if they did it would create connotations that he should be responsible, as an intelligent university student. He is walking by the river, when the girl is walking down the steps to go home and we see him lurking behind the steps looking at the girl, when she falls over, he then takes on the role as the `protector`, however slightly later in the film, we see him being aggressive and violent towards the girl, this is where the audiences view of him change, because of his actions. We have portrayed the boy as the villian and as being of a violent nature, by showing the chnage in his personality, which is very like that of `jeckyll and hyde`. His personality change is portrayed to the audience through; the use of close up camera shots that are used when the boy is being violent towards the girl and pushing her against the lampost, which creates connotations of violent and threatning behaviour that the boy is using towards the girl.

Overall, we have acheived the ambiguity that we wanted to acheive within our film, by using close up shots of the characters and their actions to create suspense and a sense of what will happen next.

By Louise McGee