Pre production - Characters in opening (Idea one)

We only need two characters for the opening, the murdered victim and the journalist. Now, I am going to produce to Character Profiles to fit both of the acting roles. I created one, which i made earlier which still fits the idea in which we settled on, i still however need to create one for the murdered victim.


Newspaper journalist 


Name :Michael Lang - I researched typical names from the 1940s - 1950s and looked at popular names used in film Noir, of which included a regularly used name of Michael

job/occupation - A Newspaper journalist, who after discovering a murder of a close friend decides to use his journalism skills to help him self and the police discover who committed the murder.

Appearance and attributes

• low/middle class newspaper journalist who lives in a flat in new york
• Smokes 
• has no enemy's until plot unfolds and gets involved in discovering the murder 
• wears unironed shit with brown trousers and brasses 
• Appears quite lonely due to living on his own in his flat
• When out in the city, wears a large trenchcoat

The murdered Victim 

Name: James Short 

Job: A Young intelegent trainee who has a bright future ahead of himself, however gets involved in his dads troubles and gets murdered by a organisation to inflict as much pain as possible to his father.

Appearance and attributes:

• Wears a smart shirt, jacket and shoes with a casual hat
• When seen, he has 2 bullet hole wounds his hat has also fallen off and his mouth is open towards the floor 

You dont find out much about who he is personaly due to him being killed off very quickly, however from the way he dresses you can assume chracateristics.