In this lesson we began to research various characters, the purpose of this was to look at some characters and try and find potential influences from them, i started to look at characters who are detectives and crime drama based.
Agent Mahone in his early 40's. Scruffy hair which signifies stress, however is smartly dressed which shows power and class status. He has a very stern facial expression meaning hardened character (potential characteristics). Struggling to fix his relationship with his wife, addicted to prescription drugs, which helps him deal with his job and help him focus which shows his obsession with his work.
Hank, early 40's addicted to his job but less of a serious character he is outgoing and much more approachable he is also more comical, he has a fat stocky build, and very intelligent, he is a stereotypical detective as he is always right in the end and gets everything right with minimal clues, he also unlike Mahoney has a good relationship with his family.
Hobbs, is a very big built military agent, who does a similar job as a detective as he goes out looking for the antagonists, he is very stern, he has a very dark sense of humour and is very violent often using brute force, nevertheless despite how he looks he is very intelligent as he always finds things that others don't seem too.
The characters in our film are heavily influenced by Leonardo Di Caprios character on shutter island. Except we didn't go with the hat or the cigarette, instead we made our character more modern with squared glasses a more serious tie with a more of a serious colour. We were heavily influenced by the idea of the trench coat because it is often affiliated with detectives and is a typical convention when it comes to films associated with crime. Usually the detective who wears a long trench coat also has some form of power and showing that they are slightly upper class as it is quite fashionable. Other detectives in the actually full film of ours wouldn't all be wearing long tench coats, there would be wearing normal coats. For example the extra character in our film who will be taking pictures of the evidence will be wearing a normal casual coat over a suit.
In this lesson we started to create character profiles (finally), which means we are one step closer to starting our film. There will be two characters in our film, one of them being me, Jake's sidekick/partner and Jake the main detective and the protagonist.
I will be playing the role of agent Mahoney. Agent Mahoney is 32 years old and average height, he possesses dark features and is a very serious character he has been a detective for over 8 years. As a child he was beaten by his father, he never had any power or authority which is why he chose to carry out this job.
We chose to create a character like this because we believe a more of a dark character will have an affect because it will link in with our genre, because if we was smiley and happy it would look like more of a comedy.
Jake's character, detective Hobbs. Hobbs is 29 years old, a less pessimistic character unlike Mahoney. He is very dedicated to his job. As a child his mother was killed and he was left orphaned as his father had died before his birth, but nobody has managed to find who the killer was, he has chosen this job to bring murderers to justice. He has lost his previous case, losing the murderer so he is stressing if he doesn't find who the murderer is he will lose his job. He abuses prescription drugs which help him focus such as adderal as it helps with his job.
We wanted a character like this because usually in films with detectives there is always that one who is dedicated and stays late hours after his work to try and solve the case, the film will also be based around him so while he looks for the clues, so will the audience and they will both try and put everything to gather to find who the killer is.
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