Character profiling

We used one of Jennifer Lopez's videos as an inspiration to brand our characters through different stereo types.

In "Get Right" by JLo the audience sees three different stereotypical females.

The Bad Girl (India Hosten-Hughes)
Through the style of clothing we have stereotyped this character to represent a "thug" like female. The J-Lo picture shows the character wearing round thick gold earrings with a bandana on folded around her head. Stereotypically "ghetto" people carry this type of dress code; it informs and identifies the audience what kind of person the character is, their attitude and how they carry themselves. Usually characters seen like this are quite rude, loud and uneducated. We have used this type of character as it is a well known character that many people can identify with either by seeing someone that or actual know someone similar. The wooly hat is identify who the character is by a specific object. The wooly hat is iconic and connotes those who are "gangster."

The Nerd
(Sheraine Wright)
Reading glasses is an iconic stereotype to identifying those who are rather intellegent and perhaps not the most popular. The character is meant to represent the "geek" group with the sinus problems, a tissue with an awkward air about them. This is also quite a comical character that most can associate with.


                                              

The Diva (Stephnie Mathurin)
The dark celebrity glasses portray the view of someone quite famous. This character that we have created is not actually a "someone" as she would like to be but rather is trying to be. She believes she is better than everyone else which is why she is the "Diva."  Her clothes are of the latest and most known labels in the fashion world. Her body language is usually quite enclosed and the dark glasses could connote that she maybe isn't that confident and is hiding behind them. The glasses represent her personality.



These are also the final casts. The Bad Girl is branded by her distinctive hat as in as the Diva is known by her glasses. We created these stereotypes to show diversity and it is also quite comical as well. Each character is wearing a prop that signifies who they are and what they represent so that the audience do not have to try to figure out what they are about but from their first judgement, we would like them to stereotype the characters so that we follow the popular conventions of a storyline.