Dead man- the dead man will be wearing smart casual clothes as if he is one of the teachers of the school. He will need to be wearing a tie and smart shoes. If possible, a ‘staff’ badge should be worn around his neck in order to identify that he is a teacher. Also his face will appear on the ‘Teachers’ board which is the main focus of the last shot of the clip. This man can be described as the “damsel in distress”. This is an atypical representation of a man as it is normally the man that is stronger than the woman and is the more dominant character however their status of power is flipped in this scene and the man is seen to be weak.
Woman- wearing school uniform and preferably high heels. This will indicate that she is not actually the age that she is being perceived to be however she has the ability to look and play a character as young as a secondary school student. It will be unclear at the beginning of the scene however this character will in fact be the helper as opposed to the direct villain. This links in with the idea of Propp's character theory.
The cleaner- the cleaner will only be in the scene for a brief moment just to depict to the audience the severity of the woman’s anger and what she is capable of. He will be wearing overalls (if possible) to show his purpose in the clip. He will not speak make any action other than clean and stare at the woman as she walks past. This is shown to represent his innocence within the scene and that he has nothing to do with the action going on in the clip but is just an extra character to fit into the scene. He therefore does not fit into Propp’s character theory.
There will be no other characters in the film in the hope that the audience will buy into the purpose of each character and understand what motivates the charcter to within the clip. This will also allow them to question their previous perception of who the villain is when at the end, it is revealed that the woman isn’t in fact the villain but the helper to the villain.
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