Our most important (and only) character in our film is the nameless homeless girl. She is trying to find her real parents whom she has never met. She has a lot of anger towards her biological parents, for giving her up and never trying to find her, which she takes out on the people around her. She is very hesitant to trust people as she believes they will hurt her like her parents did. She has every desire to find her parents but she tells herself she doesn't care about them loving her. We as an audience can see right through the facade and see that thats really all she wants. She wants to be loved.
We based our character around another similar character from a TV show called The Fosters. Her name is Callie Jacob. Callie had a hard life--her mother is dead and her father is in jail, and she has been abused in many ways in the foster care system. She has trouble opening herself up to her new family after getting out of juvi and being placed with them. She is very angry and will not allow anyone to break down the walls she has built up over the years. As soon as she feels like things are going well she will sabotage it. Like our character, she doesn't trust anyone who says they will love her because she believe they will just hurt her. Callie is similar in so many ways to our main character. They are both foster children, both angry at their parents, they have both been to juvi and they both have similar appearances and costumes.
Our main character wears very tatty and almost dirty clothing. She wears this because she is homeless and obviously hasn't got clean clothes to wear. Her clothes are quite darkly coloured and are very tomboy like. Callie's clothes are very similar. She isn't homeless so her clothes aren't dirty, but they are very dark coloured and again, tomboy like. I think their clothing reflects their personality. They are both dark, hidden girls and they wear these sort of clothes to try and almost deter people away from them, so they don't get to close emotionally. The girls both have similar appearances and facial expressions throughout. They both have brown hair and are of a similar body type. They both display quite sad and lonely facial expressions because they have both been through similar experiences.
Callie is the main character in The Fosters. The series revolves around her journey into trusting people and finding a home where she will be loved and most importantly, if she will accept that love. This is similar to our main character. Our film revolves around her journey into finding her parents and how she will finally overcome her fears of people getting close to her. These stories are very similar. The girls are both of a similar age, going through very similar experiences. The only difference is that Callie isn't trying to find her real parents because she knows where they are, and she knows her father doesn't care about her, whereas our main character has no idea where her parents are and she is on a journey to find out if they ever cared or if they left her for a good reason. If anything Callie is a bit further on in her journey, so if we were doing a full film, we could take examples from what Callie has been through and adapt them to fit our story.
We looked at many characters from different films and TV shows that were similar to our main character. We wanted her to conform to the typical stereotypes of a foster child, so we not only looked at Callie from The Fosters, we also looked at a character called Lux from a TV show Life Unexpected. These characters conform to the traditional sterotypes of foster children. They are both quite angry people, who are hesitant to let people in. They are fiercly independant and will do anything to stop themselves from having to care about people. This is because they feel like if they begin to care about people, they will just leave them, like they have experienced numerous times before. We wanted our main character to portray these traits, so we made sure she had an angry, sad and lonely demeanour. We also added a line in the monologue that reads "I'm fine on my own" to make it seem like she didn't care about anyone, which a usual trait a foster child posesses. This makes our main character also conform to the stereotypes of a foster child.
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