Sunday, 28 November 2010

Characterisation - Main Character

Name: Brooke Dalia Ellis

Age: 19

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Social Class: Middle Class

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight/Bi-sexual

Ability/Disability: Fully able (no disability)

Relationship Status: Single

Looks:
Tall (5’9)/ Brown hair/pale-olive skin/slender frame/ Blue eyes

Personality: Extrovert – Although due to the drugs she has become somewhat shy/ paranoid – emotional rollercoaster.

Costume/Hair/Male-up: Minimal make-up (Heavy Lashes, mascara and eye shadow)– perfectly styled hair – straight/wavy, costume – Short black dress, black tights, black high heels, black winter coat w/ black side-bag.

Representation Issues/ Background story
Stereotypical ‘Troubled’ teen, Thinks the world has turned its back on her and blames everything that goes wrong on herself, uses the drugs as a form of punishment and escape.
Her Parents divorced when she was 15, grew-up in a rich/well-off, but dysfunctional household, she is an only child, Once her parents had divorced her mother gained custardy for her, but then blamed her for the divorce, her father re-married and has another family of his own and wants nothing to do with her or her mother (mother is now an on-off alcoholic), The only contact her father has with her is through her bank-account, he sends her £2,000 a month – she gets to spend it on whatever she wants, One night when she was out with her friends, a guy introduced her to cocaine –She liked the buzz and the way it made everything ‘feel better’, she then tried various other drugs.

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