Nikki is a white British, middle aged woman with a clear mental defect. This image allows our audience to emphasize with her character on a similar social level. The people this type of character would may attract are young adults who have these problems happening around them all the time or may even be experiencing them themselves. In order to convey Nikkis mental illness, her appearance was scruffy, she sat on her own in most scenes suggesting her isolation but also she was in a park which has connotations to children; indicating that she may be troubled by her past/childhood, later reinforced by the small child's rucksack she picked up, we also used a close up of the bag to emphasise the fact this might link to the storyline.
The particular social group our clip is representing are the underclass who are troubled and generally in need of help. For affect and to draw in the audience we purposely overexaggerated nikkis character so that the audience have a clear idea of the problems these social groups face. to be able to develop her character, the scenes would switch continously to show her isolated, but also in some way seeking the help she deserves along with the fast editing frequency which creates an exciting suspense and contributes to the intended tense climax to come maybe later on in the film.
The gender of our character was specifically chosen because females are stereotypically the weaker gender and so this could be intriging for the audience to see what happens in her life and how she deals with it.
We are representing our particular social group by what she is wearing, the lack of effort that went into her outfit suggests her lack of energy. The use of bright lighting around her in contrasts to her body language significantly the dark place that she is in as she seems completely unaware of the beautiful nature surrounding her.
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