Character Profiles for Film Opening

There are two characters shown within our film opening. Creegan Donohue and Toby Scott appear as antagonist and protagonist characters respectively and we wished to convey the contrast between these two binary opposite persons through their demeanours and personality traits. I believe we were able to fulfil our goals and aims of representing these two very different characters and their personal quests through the stage directions dictated in the script and through the ‘rough’ lexical choice of Creegan contrasting with the pleasantness of Toby.    

This presented to the audience, two very different characters from the drug scene, the dealer who is presented as capricious, erratic, calculating and cold. 

Whilst in stark contrast to the above, the protagonist and ‘hero’ of the piece; Toby Scott is presented as a binary opposite to Creegan’s dark and overtly oppressive nature and demeaning stature.  This is shown hopefully through Toby’s attempted alleviation of drug taking in the opening scene, which Creegan takes an over reactive and rather infuriating stance to. Acting on an impulsive stimulus that Toby’s alleviation of drug and substance abuse is actually a set up to hand him into the “fucking pigs” he flies into a fitful rage that allows the audience to experience his calculating and devious nature, both of which are personality traits which we wish to explore in the opening of our film.  

We wished to show in our film opening two very differing characters with regards to their personal attributes and personalities. We wished to do this through symbolism to show clearly the two opposite personalities.

Character Profile Number 1: Creegan Donohue
Age: 19
Costume: Red jumper with black, baggy trousers. 

Creegan is the very embodiment of the sinister culture of the drug trade. Dark, devious, cunning, cold hearted and above all else, greedy he is a character of volatile and obtrusive nature with his sole aim in life to reap the rewards and benefits of other people’s discomfort and misfortune, primarily making a sizeable profit from the drugs that he sells. Sinister by nature, tyrannical and commanding by force it is these attributes that mark the character as one to be viewed with particular discontent, resentment and displeasure from audience members and the other characters alike.

Character Profile Number 2: Toby Scott
Age: 19
Costume: Green khaki jacket with faded blue jeans
Toby the protagonist of the piece, by contrast to the antagonistic Creegan, is a character more easily relatable to members of our audience. Less volatile and aggressive than Creegan, the character generally is more oriented towards more usual or otherwise ‘normal’ social behaviour. However, one thing that marks Toby out as acutely different is his tendency to become socially awkward in situations whereby he can become difficult in expressing the correct emotion for the situation that he may find himself in. We wish to showcase this in our film opening as it is an area of disability similar to autism or aspersers and as we are making a social realism film opening to cover this material will be a new and exciting direction in which to move our film opening.