Characters In Our Film

We want to represent our characters in different ways in our film opening and these were our ideas.

Genette 
We wanted our actor too appear vulnerable,happy,innocent and natural.We wanted this because we wanted our audience to feel sorry for her and for her to seem a likeable character. She isn't presented as a stereotypical teenager because she is active and working whereas teenagers these days are stereotyped as being lazy and constantly on social media. She is also not portrayed as an object to me or as part of the male gaze. She would be seen as a generic character (an innocent young girl who is victimised) a character that has been in films many times before. In our film Genette is the protagonist and we want the viewer to be drawn to her.

Kidnapper
Like Genette this character is a generic one because all you have to do is google the word kidnapper and various pictures of men being the kidnapper come up and in some of them you see women being the victim this means our kidnapper is a stereotypical kidnapper but because we wanted our film based on true events we couldn't change the character.

The two teenage girls 
These girls are only a brief part of the opening so don't really have much of a representation or a stereotype but you could say they are opposing the stereotype of teenagers like Genette is cause they are shown outside been active.