Representation of characters.

My characters will represent aspects of society and people in society that my target audience will identify and understand.

My hero shall be a young man/teenager who just wants to have a good time at the weekend after a weeks worth of work. This is a traditional working class mentality, that after a weeks work they should go out and waste their money on immediately gratifying objects like alcohol. Were as more professional people would be seen to save their money for better things or invest in potientially rewarding plans. He will have a group of close friends who they don't let many outsiders into, this is common of most young people who want to look after them selves and surround them selves with people they've known for a long time and trust. His behaviour and way of life will connate that he as a limited amount of resources in terms of income and wealth as he is living a working class life in a small, uninteresting town. He will look to prove him self to his friends through out the night connoting his insecurity and desire to be popular. My main characters drunk state will show his purely emotional state and i hope to show his desire to be 'cool' and powerful. This will be represented by the western themed shoot out fight, as he wants to see him self as this powerful mysterious male when in fact he is not. Hopefully this idea of people striving to be like their role models will relate to my target audience aswell. This will hopefully relate to them as the working class male sstill looks up to other successful males in their lives, most look up to sports stars who have rose from similar backgrounds to forfill a dream of their own for example becoming a proffesional footballer or rugby player.

My villian will not be a villain in real terms as he is very similar to my hero character in terms of personality. He also seeks to impress his friends a prove him self through asserting his power on others through violence. People will also be able to relate to this character as they will have encountered people like this in their lives and perhaps gain a dislike for this characeter through encounters with this type of person. He will be more violent then my character and harder to sympothise with and like as he is essientially picking on some one who is vunerable and unable to defend him self.

My characeters friends will be in a similar mold to my hero as they are close friends. They will look for the same immediate gratification as my character and are from the same background of life.

These main character roles are defined by Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale. Were by a story shall always contain certain character types. The hero in his definiton struggles against the villain and trys to wed the princess, however in my film their is no princess but he does however see him self as a protector of his friends and seeks to gain their respect. The villain will by Propp's definition struggle with the hero and he will do in my film but he will be victorious.