We have decided to include a female character to our trailer, in order to balance the representation of gender and to create more depth within our narrative, thus adhering to the crime/thriller conventions. We decided that we needed to flesh out the narrative in acts 2 & 3 and thus we felt the need to include a character that was a sort of 'side-kick' to our main protagonist. Due to the fact that our main influence for this trailer has been 'Welcome To The Punch', whereby Mcavoy's intelligent and reasonable 'side-kick' character is a woman, we decided to make this character in our trailer, a woman, not only because it balances our gender representation as previously mentioned, but also gives us a chance to broaden our target audience and play with ideas of gender relationships whilst we are in the filming stage. It gives us more opportunity to play with different shot angles and movements in order to show effects, such as power/authority amongst the different gendered characters. We didn't want the gender to be too 'one-sided' in our movie because not only did it not feel 'natural' but it would also be going against many crime/thriller films, who involve female characters and whom are often central to the storylines. This character would be extremely important for us as she is our main protagonists 'voice of reason' throughout the trailer/film.
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