Character's

First things first i have been having a lot of internet issues which mean now got a lot of catching up to do so better start with some things from back in January.

Characters are a important part of a film as they can help create emotional bonds between the audience and the film or they can alienate a audience completely. For our film we want to keep with in the Film Noir conventions with characters which means that our protagonist has to be flawed. To achieve this we plan to use mise en scene techniques and casual character signifiers. These are things like being drunk, smoking and gambling.

I think a good example of the character we would like to portray for our protagonist would be something like Nathan Algren from the film The Last Samurai. At the beggining of the film he is a alcoholic and generally mentally unstable. This is very similar to the goals we have for our character.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/

The antagonist in our film we want to be mysterious and not show his face or body to clearly. To achieve this we plan to use a mask to cover his face. This idea was inspired after watching some films such as the original Halloween in which the murderer wears a mask through out the film. It also shows alot of nice camera shots from his perspective in which you can hear his deep calm breathing against the mask. This is a nice effect but I doubt we would be able to use something like it in our film with out taking the audience away from the main plot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/