Character Development (And introducing my amazing leads!!)

    In this film, The two characters I want to focus on developing most are Charles and Jackson. Overall, I want it to become obvious who the real protagonist is, and although the two most featured characters in the opening would be Charles and the Figment, the two leads of the whole film concept would be Charles and Jackson.

    This is Luken Aldazabal! He will be the actor playing Charles. After talking with him a bit about this character, we had established how this film would end for him. As the film starts, you see him as the average college 'party guy.' Obviously he would have a great connection with his friends, but still have some ups and downs. The goal for his character would be to show that from his own perspective, he is a good guy. Knowing the audience would be seeing things the way he sees them, he needs to develop into the antagonist very slowly. The goal and message of this film will heavily rely on how well his perspective is shown. Charles' character will have a build up of seeing the Figment silence people and questioning why this is happening, until he finally has a breakdown. During this peak of his character, it will begin to become evident that his character had become the bad one, and the Figment just executes what he wants to happen. This is when Jackson's role in the story will become very important.

    This is Matthew Squeri, the actor of Jackson. Jackson's character will definitely develop much differently. Since he will be the representation of revolution, he needs to clearly differ from the rest of the characters in the way he reacts to being silenced. I had already written that in the first scene he rips the tape off of his mouth, showing how he doesn't follow what Charles wants. He will also be the only character that doesn't change into the colors Charles often wears throughout the film. Jackson will be shown as Charles' best friend at the beginning of the film, showing the audience the bond between the two and how their relationship dynamic is, to make the change later on far more evident. As the film progresses, Jackson slowly distances himself from Charles. Finally, by the time Charles is having his breakdown from the Figment's influence, Jackson will lash out on Charles and finally confront him for his actions. This is when everything will turn into reality and it will be scene by Jackson's point of view, where everyone is in their regular colors but they do not want to even be associated with Charles and how he had been silencing them without it going noticed. Jackson is now seen as the protagonist while Charles is now the antagonist, and the characters true natures will have fully developed by this point.