R+P Post 6: Our opening sequence's characters and how we plan to represent social groups

Characters:

• Toby:
• An invisible boy and the main protagonist of the film. He is very socially awkward as he has been home schooled his whole life. It is very conventional of the mockumentary genre to centre around a socially awkward character, for instance Viago from What We Do in The Shadows (2014).
• Toby also shows representations of disability, as even though he is invisible he still tries to live his life to the full.
• To represent this in Toby we will have very awkward dialogue in his interview shots, and show him being quite clumsy around the house, and not really socially aware.

Stereotypical socially awkward teenage boy

• Joyce:
• Toby's Mum. She was a yoga and Pilates instructor and is very much into new-age medicines and ideas. She favourites Toby as he is the 'special' one out of her two sons. For her character we decided to go quite outrageous as this allowed us to create comedy through her interactions with others.



Outnumbered (2007-2014)



What We Do in The Shadows (2014)

• Joyce is obsessed with health and fitness, very much reminiscent of characters like Aunty Angela in Outnumbered (2007-2014).
• To connote these in our sequence, you will see Joyce exercising on the Wii board, her favouring Toby through her interviews and her passive-aggressive attitude towards her ex-husband.

Stereotypical yoga/fitness mum

• Kenny:
• Toby's identical twin brother who isn't invisible. Although quite odd Kenny is the normal one in his family.
• We chose to represent Toby and Kenny this way so they were very contrasting teenage stereotypes.
• To do this we are making Kenny have very bland dialogue and costume, as he isn't the interesting member of the family.

Normal/boring teenage boy