Trauma or Trama?

Before we actually begin to film, it is important to figure out details that impact the overall quality and message of our intro. This includes making a profile and background for our main character as well as incorporating techniques in order to create a more real character.

Daniel Trama (actually Jason Bateman) 

His name is Daniel Trama and he is 19 years old and currently attending college. In mystery films, the main character usually has some sort of important issue or is attempting to solve a crime or mystery. So, I think of it as one type of mystery movie being from the detective's point of view (Sherlock Holmes), and the other type is from the victim's or person's point of view. Many mystery movies don't necessarily involve a crime, rather an interesting stream of events that need to be tied together by some sort of logical reason. With this in mind, we agreed that Daniel has PTSD and constantly has hallucinations of himself being at places that he physically isn't at in the moment. Also, Daniel wears dark clothing (furthers the eerie and creepy feeling around him) and has bags under his eyes, from his lack of real sleep from constant suffering. The photograph that I included is how we think Daniel (roughly) looks like, and luckily, Trace (one of my group members) has a similar look. We are going to use makeup and clothing design in order to complete his image and make his character real.

Having more details about our main character is imperative because the character furthers the establishment of the genre, tone, plot, and message. In fact, the character is absolutely necessary in order to develop the plot, so I am pleased that we now have a better understanding of our character, Daniel.
Jason Bateman. Digital image. Fanpop. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.