What a Character

    An important part of our storytelling process in our movie intro will be the characters we have in the scene, and although we have only two people, these two people will be incredibly important in developing the vibe of the rest of the characters that may appear in the movie and also establish context to the story. Although similar, we want our characters to have small differences that set them apart and end up making one of them kill the other.
    Our biggest similarity what wee want for the character is who they are socially. We felt that with the use of social media being highlighted and our target audience being young adults and teenagers, that our characters would be somebody that the viewers could relate to or connect with due to similar age range, so teenagers, probably high school students. We also wanted to use the most stereotypical type of social media users in our video, so we are going for the "cool crowd," more specifically a kind of "Mean Girls" vibe for our two characters. We felt this would best exemplify the social media use and really highlight what we want throughout the intro, along with poking at some social aspects as well.

    According to characterchange.com, characters having a fundamental fear that drives them is extremely important. More specifics can be viewed here. An inherent fear can be included in the character that motivates them and causes them to behave in certain ways. This is definitely something we feel we can use in our characters, especially the killer. We feel that because she is a popular girl also, and her heavy reliance on social media will be highlighted throughout the movie intro, that her inherent fear will be the fear of not being  accepted by others and fear of loss of attention and involvement. This would fit well since her motive for killing the girl will be that the girl has unfollowed her on social media and ended up not including her in social events. Although we will not say it explicitly in our video, it should be somewhat obvious as the movie goes on what the character's fear is.
    Since our characters are an integral part of our project, we felt the best way to portray our message would be to cast people that can act rather than some of our classmates, which will allow us to more easily make our video and not have to worry about whether or not the acting is poor. We are currently looking for actors now from the drama department of our school.

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