Character Profiles

Dan

The male character is a teenager who has clearly been with a girl for a long time. He is in an unhappy place after she broke up with him and is trying to come to terms with everything but is finding it hard to understand what has happened. He has stayed in his room for along time and is in a state of depression causing sleepless nights. He drinks a lot and his room is a mess because of this. The music video is focused around him and how he has been affected. The reason we decided to focus on the male opinion is because most love stories focus on the female side and always puts men in the villain role. We went against the representation of this and challenged it.

Dan fits this character profile because he is of the same age and stature that we had in mind. Also he has been in this situation himself and so understands the emotion we wanted to portray. When we filmed, his movement fitted with how we wanted to represent the character and the audience which would relate to his situation.

Helen

We see only a little of the female character in flashbacks due to the fact the song focuses on the male’s opinion of a brake up. However, we need to portray that she is heartless in only a few shots. On the other hand, because many of the shots are of the two totally in love, the implication is that she finished the relationship for poor reasons.

Helen fits this profile because she is young, good looking and fits the stereotypical representation of women in music videos though not scantily clad. This will target male viewers and show the audience that she does not act as innocent as she looks.

Furthermore, the two fit look good together, they have similar coloured hair and, because Dan is taller, the two fit the stereotypical couple. Also because they are good friends their chemistry works well. Finally, we found it useful to use people working within our group as actors, lessening the risk of actors dropping out. It also meant it was easy to organise everyone and find days where we could all film.