Social Groups and Portrayal

We wanted our characters to be conventional for a thriller, but we also wanted to represent a certain social group for each character.

Harley's portrayal was the innocent victim being stalked and harassed, we made sure she was put in attractive clothing that her hair and makeup was perfect in all the shots and that she stood out from a normal person. This was to show that she is going to be a victim and allows the target audience to know how vulnerable her character is.

Jacobs character is very bold and we wanted him to act very protective and portray the real concerned boyfriend type to appeal to the target audience. He wasn't really as important as Harley because obviously we wanted focus the whole attention onto her as a victim so the real main shots we had of Jacob, portrayed him as concerned and protective.

Our last character was Bola who was only shown once as the plot breaker, this means that we had to really decide where to put his shots and we put his shot of him and Harley right before the trailer started to pick up speed and the shots became faster.

Overall I think the group of characters worked well and you can't tell as an audience who the stalker is this was because we chose the right costume and the lighting and location correctly. The only thing I think I may want to do again or what I would re do would probably be, more shots of Bola but I think the balance that we have at the moment is secure.