Character Profiles within Epidemic
I am going to talk about the characters that we created within this film. I am going to evaluate how each individual character contributed to the project and how that made this as good as it can possibly be. The group came up with 7 characters in total. Three of them are zombies and the other three are main characters which take part in questioning one’s existence. I am going to evaluate the positives and negatives of each person and then speak about why we made these characters in the way we intended.
David Potter
This character wakes up from a coma in a hospital bed, not knowing what has occurred. He wakes up in the traumatic times of the zombie Apocalypse and this doesn’t summarise until he realises why everything is so quiet and derelict. This character then meets two other characters who attack him to suspend him, to make sure that he isn’t hostile and dangerous. The wounds here are created from the surgery and the attack in which another character hits him in the head with a baseball bat.
Why did we create this character?
This character is the main character and we did this so we can see from a perspective of someone just joining in on the post-apocalyptic story. This needs David Potter’s point of view so this is why we created many POV shots of how he sees the environment around him. This was done to create realistic and fragile state of mind also. This character throughout the sequence shows a silent and resilient aspect, as he doesn’t want people to know information about him. He doesn’t even know what’s happened himself, so the brutality that is caused by the other two characters shows intentional questionability to what’s happening.
The clothing and make-up on this character tried to look as realistic as possible through as little money and budget as we had. We used fake blood in attempt to show damage to the person’s body. The clothing inside the scenes show that he has just woken up from an operation as he still had an operation gown on. I won’t delve too much into the clothing as that is for another post.
Sarah
Sarah is the main girl character in our film and is very powerful, especially in the decisions she has to face. Sarah has a best friend called Steve and despite being the woman, Sarah is the decision maker, the one in charge and the most mentally strong. Even though her partner Steve is physically strong, between the both of them Sarah is the most strong as she can keep herself together and has something inside her that makes her perfect for this new world. She still has lots of fear as fear is what keeps her good and what keeps her alive. Inside she is terrified of the world around her but can compose herself very well in front of the zombies and the humans. This is because of Sarah’s background. Sarah pre apocalypse was just an average girl in an office job. She was an interview manager for a secretive Government company called Blume. Blume were a company that recruited and trained military like men who came into action when big events happened such as terrorist threats, riots or situations the police were just not equipped to deal with. The men were trained by ex military men and had any weapons they wanted because of the fact it was a government run company it had lots of money. Which was quite good pay being that the company was secretive, but despite this Sarah didn’t like her job. The company recruited men that were mentally and physically strong and had the best of the best therefore in the interviewing process had to be put to the test and challenged. Sarah was in charge of the interviewing of new employees and had to make sure she got the best of the best, therefore her job was hard as she couldn’t just pick random people she had to have the best on offer. The interviewing process meant that Sarah had to ask deep personal questions to the men she interviewed and she always had the best background knowledge on her interviewee’s. A thing Sarah struggled with was the fact that there were no women that were allowed to apply as the company wanted it done a strict way and statistically men handled the situations better than women. Because Sarah was such a strong woman she struggled with the fact there were no women allowed and protested against this. This was just before the apocalypse happened.
Why did we create this character?
We created this character because we originally wanted a girl in the group. We constructed that we should allow a girl in the cast because then we can build a relationship on her with David or Steve. This would also be good for the story to branch into the stereotypical ‘The Last Girl’ which is a core convention of horror films. We knew that we could expand on this character in the ways that we did. This character has a lot of potential for us to make the plot so much better with the ideas that could be in the feature-length film. Nothing much happens in the 3 minute sequence that we created however it does show that she’s very selfish as she runs out the room where zombies try and overcrowd, without trying to save Steve or David.
Steve
Steve is the brains of the three main characters. We intended for Steve to be very wise in what is happening, he doesn’t have much going for him in the film apart from him being very defensive and has an attacking trait on him.
Why did we create this character?
We wanted Steve to be bit in the end, as this creates a fatality and strikes the group to be as tense as possible. We wanted the death to be a key point, but we also wanted him to be wise, without someone being wise within a group, it can create upset and potentially more deaths or emergencies.
News Reporter
This character doesn’t do much apart from attempt to broadcast news to the viewers. This character is used to establish the scene. This establishes the film and the scenes that occur.
Character Profiles within Epidemic
I am going to talk about the characters that we created within this film. I am going to evaluate how each individual character contributed to the project and how that made this as good as it can possibly be. The group came up with 7 characters in total. Three of them are zombies and the other three are main characters which take part in questioning one’s existence. I am going to evaluate the positives and negatives of each person and then speak about why we made these characters in the way we intended.
David Potter
This character wakes up from a coma in a hospital bed, not knowing what has occurred. He wakes up in the traumatic times of the zombie Apocalypse and this doesn’t summarise until he realises why everything is so quiet and derelict. This character then meets two other characters who attack him to suspend him, to make sure that he isn’t hostile and dangerous. The wounds here are created from the surgery and the attack in which another character hits him in the head with a baseball bat.
Why did we create this character?
This character is the main character and we did this so we can see from a perspective of someone just joining in on the post-apocalyptic story. This needs David Potter’s point of view so this is why we created many POV shots of how he sees the environment around him. This was done to create realistic and fragile state of mind also. This character throughout the sequence shows a silent and resilient aspect, as he doesn’t want people to know information about him. He doesn’t even know what’s happened himself, so the brutality that is caused by the other two characters shows intentional questionability to what’s happening.
This character is the main character and we did this so we can see from a perspective of someone just joining in on the post-apocalyptic story. This needs David Potter’s point of view so this is why we created many POV shots of how he sees the environment around him. This was done to create realistic and fragile state of mind also. This character throughout the sequence shows a silent and resilient aspect, as he doesn’t want people to know information about him. He doesn’t even know what’s happened himself, so the brutality that is caused by the other two characters shows intentional questionability to what’s happening.
The clothing and make-up on this character tried to look as realistic as possible through as little money and budget as we had. We used fake blood in attempt to show damage to the person’s body. The clothing inside the scenes show that he has just woken up from an operation as he still had an operation gown on. I won’t delve too much into the clothing as that is for another post.
Sarah
Sarah is the main girl character in our film and is very powerful, especially in the decisions she has to face. Sarah has a best friend called Steve and despite being the woman, Sarah is the decision maker, the one in charge and the most mentally strong. Even though her partner Steve is physically strong, between the both of them Sarah is the most strong as she can keep herself together and has something inside her that makes her perfect for this new world. She still has lots of fear as fear is what keeps her good and what keeps her alive. Inside she is terrified of the world around her but can compose herself very well in front of the zombies and the humans. This is because of Sarah’s background. Sarah pre apocalypse was just an average girl in an office job. She was an interview manager for a secretive Government company called Blume. Blume were a company that recruited and trained military like men who came into action when big events happened such as terrorist threats, riots or situations the police were just not equipped to deal with. The men were trained by ex military men and had any weapons they wanted because of the fact it was a government run company it had lots of money. Which was quite good pay being that the company was secretive, but despite this Sarah didn’t like her job. The company recruited men that were mentally and physically strong and had the best of the best therefore in the interviewing process had to be put to the test and challenged. Sarah was in charge of the interviewing of new employees and had to make sure she got the best of the best, therefore her job was hard as she couldn’t just pick random people she had to have the best on offer. The interviewing process meant that Sarah had to ask deep personal questions to the men she interviewed and she always had the best background knowledge on her interviewee’s. A thing Sarah struggled with was the fact that there were no women that were allowed to apply as the company wanted it done a strict way and statistically men handled the situations better than women. Because Sarah was such a strong woman she struggled with the fact there were no women allowed and protested against this. This was just before the apocalypse happened.
Why did we create this character?
We created this character because we originally wanted a girl in the group. We constructed that we should allow a girl in the cast because then we can build a relationship on her with David or Steve. This would also be good for the story to branch into the stereotypical ‘The Last Girl’ which is a core convention of horror films. We knew that we could expand on this character in the ways that we did. This character has a lot of potential for us to make the plot so much better with the ideas that could be in the feature-length film. Nothing much happens in the 3 minute sequence that we created however it does show that she’s very selfish as she runs out the room where zombies try and overcrowd, without trying to save Steve or David.
We created this character because we originally wanted a girl in the group. We constructed that we should allow a girl in the cast because then we can build a relationship on her with David or Steve. This would also be good for the story to branch into the stereotypical ‘The Last Girl’ which is a core convention of horror films. We knew that we could expand on this character in the ways that we did. This character has a lot of potential for us to make the plot so much better with the ideas that could be in the feature-length film. Nothing much happens in the 3 minute sequence that we created however it does show that she’s very selfish as she runs out the room where zombies try and overcrowd, without trying to save Steve or David.
Steve
Steve is the brains of the three main characters. We intended for Steve to be very wise in what is happening, he doesn’t have much going for him in the film apart from him being very defensive and has an attacking trait on him.
Why did we create this character?
We wanted Steve to be bit in the end, as this creates a fatality and strikes the group to be as tense as possible. We wanted the death to be a key point, but we also wanted him to be wise, without someone being wise within a group, it can create upset and potentially more deaths or emergencies.
We wanted Steve to be bit in the end, as this creates a fatality and strikes the group to be as tense as possible. We wanted the death to be a key point, but we also wanted him to be wise, without someone being wise within a group, it can create upset and potentially more deaths or emergencies.
News Reporter
This character doesn’t do much apart from attempt to broadcast news to the viewers. This character is used to establish the scene. This establishes the film and the scenes that occur.
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