Proposal - Representations

The following post offers a more detailed description of our ideas for the proposal.

Our representations within the film:

Gender Representation
We want to have a strong female protagonist, who is up against and thwarts the male characters in the film, as opposed to the usual representations of women in action and revenge drama films, e.g. the damsel in distress.

We noticed that the main issue with strong female characters within the genres we are working in is they tend to lose their femininity or become cold and heartless.
We wanted to defy this representation by making her fall in love with the boyfriend as well as by using key iconography, particularly in the opening.

Iconography we planned on having;
-Perfume
-jewellery such as Necklace and Ring.
-Make-up

Film character references for the woman would be:

• Carrie from Homeland 
• Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke from Revenge 
• Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games 
• Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride from Kill Bill 
• Hanna from Hanna
• Mallony Kane from Haywire 

Her boyfriend, on the other hand, is innocent and unaware of what is going on. We noticed that usually in the action genre the man is always in the know and the woman is more likely to be unsuspecting and clueless, so in our own film we want to switch these roles around.


Narrative references for the boyfriend would be:

• Peeta from The Hunger Games 
• Daniel Grayson from Revenge 

However our representation of the boyfriends father is a very contrasting powerful man, our influence came from the following character references:

• Marko from Taken 
• Henry Hill from Goodfellas 
• Michael Corleone from The Godfather