Characters for my opening

Characters
In my film opening I want to have two characters, a female and male character.
There names are Adam Cooper and Angle Dubois, and they are both teenagers.

Adam
Age: 17
Personality: He is shy, quite young boy who can sometimes act arrogant.
Costume: His wears a normal outfit of a simple colourful t-shirt.
Relationships: He has a few friends, and a distant relationship with his mother and father, whom he hardly sees. He is a relationship with Angle for a few days, but breaks it off as he finds her creepy.
He is from Britain, Norfolk.





Angle
Age: 16
Personality: She is a very quite and creepy female, whom doesn't really talk to anybody.
Costume: A white lacy dress which becomes significant later on in the film.
Relationships: She has no family that is heard of and doesn't have many friends as most of her class mates have dispread. She is in love with Adam so much so that she kills anyone close to him.
She is from Britain, Norfolk.

Character profiles

Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games
She is from the highly acclaimed film the Hunger Games. She is 16-18 in  the trilogy. In this film the population their world lives in different districts. Katniss lives in district 12. She is fatherless as he died in the mines of district 12. She has a very deep relationship with the rest of her family such as her sister Prim.
She has one best friend, Gale, who's in love with her. 
She is young looking while be thin and lanky, with brown hair and green eyes. She is determined to survive and she is a introverted.
Though out the films she becomes more determined to do what's right and fight back. She is caring but bitter towards the capital.

John Bender
The Breakfast Club
John Bender is a character from the 1985 movie, The Breakfast club. His age is around 16/17 year old. He lives in America, with a abusive father and mother. He has a lot of friends but we don't see them in the film. He has a relation with the other character Claire which he shares a kiss at the end of the film. He is tall with brown hair. He is troublesome and don't care for the high power, often being hush and rude to those around him.

Regina George

Mean Girls

Regina George is a popular character from Mean girl, in 2004. She is from America and is 16/17, and lives with her step mother and her father. She has two best friends and is tall, blonde with green eyes. She is popular, cruel and materialistic. Her best friends are named Gretchen Wieners  and Karen Smith who are with her though the whole film, however stop being her friends near the end of the film.

My film opening; characters

Some directors thing of characters before they think of the plot of there film as the characters move the plot forward. Plus the more complex the character the more impressed the audience will be, if the characters are  more interesting  and have a good back story the audience will have more of a connection between the characters.
The directors who do this pick characters that will fit with the story. For example Tim Burton in big fish thought of the character of Edward Bloom before the story. As Edward Bloom was such a well thought out character it was better to make the plan out the story based on his character rather than make a character to fit the story. I think that Burton did this so it would make the film process easier as events of the film would only work with that certain character. As the events are strange and would only fit with a character which who like Edward Bloom is strange enough and kind enough to live in the situation like them.
Characters are important to a story as they flesh out the plot and increase likability to the film. In my view the characters are more important than the story as a bad plot can be fixed by some great character as they are the more remembered and most relateble part of the film.
In the past many ( Although not always) where stereotypes of certain types of people. The Hero, The Villain ect. As time has gone on creators have become more creative with there characters and making them more complex. This trend has happened in all genres of the film memdiem. Strangely the time we are in now has changed the main idea of the Hero. The heroes dynamics in most media have ( mostly in young adult, adult films) have become more dark and depressing. The changes between Adam West Batman comedic of the 60s to the Christopher Nolan dark, edge films of this era.  The characters of today can be excellent and well thought out or terrible examples of writing and human concepts.

As my Coursework is only an opening few minutes I can not create a well establish characters as there is too little time but I can use my characters to show the genre of my film or the roles they will that be in my opening. As my film is the genre of Horror I want to show that my characters are mysterious and modern in dress and aesthetic.

Typical horror movie teenagers:

Comedy opening synopsis

Opening
In our opening, our comedy shows a man lying on a sofa talking to a psychiatrist about a deep fear he has, what the fear is very unknown at the start of our opening.
He goes in to a depth discussion about his fears, still unknown by the audience. Johanny criticizes the therapist in a rude and juvenile manner in his mind, juxtaposing the seriousness of the therapist.

What would happen in the rest of the film.
In the rest of the film we wanted to show a type of strange romantic relationship. The way we will do this will be that a there is a female character who he forms a bonds, whom can help him from his fear of hovers. They form a romantic relationship because of his fear.