Name: Yeliz
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Turkish
Background: Yeliz lives by herself, she has no family members close by so if she needed help she wouldn't be in range of any. She Just moved into the suburbs and in her small neighborhood nobody knows her well so she is literally a stranger to the town. She lives next door to roommates who are very mysterious about their way of life as they are hardly ever seen. She is mentally unstable and the order of events that occur trigger her to become fragile and afraid as she has to scurry for survival.
Purpose to the Narrative: She is the main character and victim of the Thriller, she has to do what it takes to be able to survive. The opening scene will evolve around a nightmare that she has during the night and what outcomes face her are all based in her mind. She covers the whole stereotype of Thriller movies with the innocent female victim character which is successful as the audience are able to bond with the weak character and anything that happens to them affects the audience as they are trapped within the tension that is building up. Part of the narrative, she is in bed having nightmares, then suddenly rises from her bed. She makes her way to get some water as all the heavy breathing has caused her a dry throat, then we start seeing the man in the gas mask in the house. When the phone rings she will see the gas mask man and fled away upstairs but she will be denied to the rooms above. She gives up and drops to the floor when she is grabbed, she lashes her leg out to the gas mask man in order to flee the staircase and she runs outside to meet her nightmare
How would the character appeal to an audience: If the victim was male it wouldn't seem as harsh if he lived through the same events but as she is a female there is that aspect where the audience will have some hope as she will be perceived as weak compared to the antagonist. The innocent female is a common convention to most thriller films as she is usually weak and vulnerable. We have chosen this character to follow the commons of a traditional thriller and make a sympathetic connection to the audience. Thrillers need the audience to have a connection to the main characters in the film so the audience show emotion when the victim faces the 'unwanted' guest at her door. If the audience don't show emotion then they wont jump or be scared when Yeliz is attacked.
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Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: German
Background: The character has a history of mental illness and and thinks he is in a past time. the characters family originate form Germany and the subjects farther fought in the 2nd world war. The subject is a known racist and has recently moved from his isolated town in Germany that have communist connections with the Ukraine to the area which Yeliz has settled in her home. He can be seen as a psychopath as he is determined to haunt Yeliz, he manages to seem unnatural and does what he can in order to take her life. He stalks her house to play around with Yeliz's mind and his hidden identity has many tricks of its own.
Purpose to the Narrative: One of two antagonists. Racist background and Yeliz is the victim to this psychopath as he will do what he can to take her life, he plays with her mind to pull every string linked to her mental strength and he takes her to her last stand as he takes part in some brutal attacks. he lives in the same region of Ukraine that Yeliz lives in and he has spent months closing in on her. Within the narrative he is basically the murderer, Yeliz will do her best but in the end we all know that the innocent victim in this case never survives what is coming to them, and this plays along very well with the codes and conventions of a typical Thriller genre narrative.
How would the character appeal to an audience: This gives the audience the impression that the unknown subject is persuasive and devious. It will show the corrupt nature and unveiled lifetime problems Paul and his counterpart has and gives the sense that they are both vulnerable and weak minded. The mask shows he has something to hide and this can in many ways be related to fear as he is trying to hide himself, and for the audience they will feel that the mask is his only defence and that really without the mask he is nobody, so he will appeal to them because there will always be that part of the audience that hope in some part of the film that the mask will come off and his past will fall.
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Name: Paul Wright
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White British
Background: A high-end businessman, with shares in a company and everything he wants. His farther owns the company and has secured his role. After a pattern of being late, he starts to become mysterious. He has unregistered meetings with someone who just moved from Ukraine that last hours at a time. He starts to turn up in old coloured clothes and starts to speak like he is from another time. He becomes a major collector in German WW2 artifacts and locks himself in his office without any communication to the rest of the building. The other subject starts to dress in the businessman's clothes and people start to wonder what this group and organisation of men are up to as they continue to take up in mysterious activities.
Purpose to the Narrative: In the narrative he is estimated to be the counterpart of the man in the Mask, his identity is not as hidden because he is not the main villain but only an aid to taunt the victim so that his master can hawk down on them like a predator. In the house he his seen in a few part as he is mainly analysing Yeliz's behaviours in order to do his evil deeds.
How would the character appeal to an audience: The audience would like to think that as he is only the sidekick, that if he was taken down it would make the other villain week as he will not have any back up and as a single warrior be weak and fragile. The audience will try to hope that something goes wrong for him so it reflects on to his master which in turn may cause the downfall of both villains.
