Characters

RED

Female, late teens, Caucasian, small build, slim, agile, dark or auburn hair.

Red’s motivation is safety. Primarily caring about herself but also thinking of others. As young women are disappearing from her village, she realises there is danger and a fear to stay away from. She’s cautious and intelligent when it comes to making decisions, always thinking everything through. We see this as at the end of the film when she realises her grandmother is a vampire and the cause of the missing women, she instantly reacts and kills her. She realises that it’s not her grandmother anymore and that killing her protects herself and the other women in her village, which shows just how much her own safety means.

Red will initially be wearing a red coat that she will take off when she arrives at the house. The red coat connotes blood and foreshadows the danger she will be in. Underneath her coat she will be wearing a white top this emphasises her innocence and purity at the start of the film. She will be wearing black skinny jeans and boots to show the darkness of our film, the skinny jeans also show that our film is shot in modern day.

At the end of the film, her white top will be covered in blood, thus turning it red. This shows her growth during the film showing that she’s now a woman as the colour red connotes action, passion and sexuality.

Red will need a knife that she cuts herself with and wooden knife block that she hits her grandmother with as props.

 

GRANDMOTHER

Female, 40-50yo, Caucasian, medium build, slim, dark almost grey hair.

Red’s grandmother’s motivation is staying alive and staying young. As she is a vampire she needs to feed off human blood in order to survive. However, as she is going to live forever, she drinks the blood of young women to make herself look younger. As she gets younger she gets thirstier, constantly striving for younger, fresher blood. This youthful version of herself is greedy and we can see that as she kills her own daughter and then goes after her granddaughter too.

The grandmother will be wearing the colour purple. This is because it connotes calmness, sensitivity, peace and wisdom which is how we feel the grandmother would act before she turned into a vampire. However, the colour purple also connotes power, mystery, negativity and gloom which is how we want our vampire grandmother to be shown.