Story Board

Characters

Characters

Natasha:

In the opening to our thriller film, Tiempo, our protagonist is a young woman between 20-25 years of age. In her back story, the characters’ father is wanted by the government for official business, due to these circumstances he has to let everyone be certain that he is dead thus he is able to go into hiding. Hence, this comes to the first instance of our character ‘Natasha’, she is lead to reason her father is dead, which has produced her into a broken/damaged person. The fact that her father is deceased is established to the audience via the prop of a pocket watch; we decided that this were to be appropriate as the pocket watch would have belonged to her father and it would be the last item in which her father gives to her, later this develops more apparent when our character is murdered with the matching pocket watch. Our character will use this pocket watch as a comfort towards the death of her father, it’s a way in which she feels nearby to him.Having a fragmented/damaged personality will be portrayed in ways such as the characters’ makeup.Whilst she wears red lipstick, it is a washed-out red, whilst she wears earrings, they’re imitation pearls, whilst she wears a dress, she wears a hoodie with it, when wearing her heels, they are worn in. An audience will be able to pick up on these, understanding that this character is appears to be trying to make an effort, though it does not seem to be working. Natasha is a closed person, she tries not to let anybody get too close to her, she tries not to let out her inner thoughts or feelings, which comes down to the loss of her father, she never accepted his death and it dampens down her personality, closing her in, coming across as a misunderstood woman. However, the protagonist is not afraid of confrontation, if it comes to it, she is one who will stand her ground and for what she believes in, even if it pushes away those who are closest to her. Arguably, the protagonist is a femme-fatal, she wears red, her shoes are red, her hoodie is red, highlighting a sense of danger/enigma about her; the colour red also suggests a sense of glamour, coming back to the idea that whilst our character is trying to be classy, her inner broken personality comes forward.

Our chosen character came from aspects of certain films, such as sin city. Sin city too has a femme-

fatal who uses the same theme of looking classy/glamorous with the colour red. We chose to adopt

this as we felt that it would fit well with the persona in which our character has.

Detective:

The next character we meet in our thriller opening is the detective, this is the character whom 

provides our protagonist with an envelope containing her fathers address. The detective is more of a 

side character who is earning a bit of money on the side selling secrets. The costume in which we will

have is a formal suit, with a detective style trench coat possibly with the addition of a brief case. The

detective will also possess a police badge so that way the audience can have their thoughts 

confirmed. We meet the detective within a cafe, throughout the whole opening, there is no dialogue, 

so the detective places this envelope inside of a cafe menu and carefully slides it along the table. 

This is the most we see of the detective, so this particular character stays quite mysterious.

The detective inspiration came from a film called Se7en, where the protagonist is a stereo typical 

detective from the dress code to the policing badge. we adapted this idea to fit our own thriller 

opening. Also the use of having no dialogue came from the film Alice Creed, were only facial 

expressions and hand gestures are used to tell the story.

Assassin:

Moreover, the assassin is also quite mysterious, he is dressed in very dark colours, wearing black 

leather gloves, black tailored trousers and a black hoodie. This character is dressed in black as black 

is associated with darkness and darkness with hell, essentially our assassin is creating hell killing the

protagonist with the chekhov's gun (pocket watch). 

The assassin comes from the film sin city, where the male character kills off the femme-fatal, which

is similar to what is going on within our opening, though for different reasons.