Evaluation, part 2

For part 2 I am going to be analyzing the different types of characters which were used in our film, to do this I am going to be looking at the character type and how each are represented throughout the opening 2 minutes of the film. During the opening of or film we used 3 different characters;

First of the characters are the killer, his type is labelled as a psychopath. His characteristics are defined as evil, insane, intelligent and sly. These characteristics are represented by the ways, in which the killer is shown during the clip. The Dutch tilt used in the film is used to represent his level of insanity; it helps to portray the physiological uneasiness which the killer provides to the audience, and also represents the uneasy feelings which he has himself.  Along with this the writing clip in the film shows that he is literary intelligent, although this is conveyed as creepy to the audience. As he is clever, but yet you know that this level of intelligence is not going to be used in a good way due to the thriller genre.

Second character shown in the film is the children who are seen to be conventional. The characteristics of which they own are happy, energetic and innocent. These characteristics were the close up shot of the child’s face, which exaggerated their happiness. Along with this the energetic side to the children was by the medium shot which captured them playing ring-a-roses which one and other, this also to a certain extent conveys the innocence of the children in the film, playing games.

The third characters in the film are the adults; they are shown to be to some extent possessed and scared. Their characteristics are seen as strange and mysterious. These aspects of the adults are represented by the appearance of the balloon in the film, which is part of the editing. By having the balloon in the film creates a strange feeling, as it is used as the representation of a person which has disappeared which then does give an unknown feeling to the film and also to the adults themselves. Along with this the disappearance of one of the adult characters leaves a mysterious feeling from the audience to the adult characters. The mysterious feeling of which you get from the characters reflects the genre to a great extent.