About the charaters

The Female detective (Maria Jones)

Maria is from a upper class background, in her 40's with a well paid, professional but also stressful job. Due to her professional and high up position she is seen to be stuck up, big headed and intimidating. Her role in the trailer shows her in competition with the Journalist (Peter Stone). They clash as despite the journalist being young and not as experienced as her, he has detected that she has made an error by imprisoning the wrong man for a case a few years ago, because of this Maria is defensive and is for once in her life frightened that her career and good reputation could be ruined if the journalist decides to tell her secret.Therefore, she finds herself being intimidated by the young journalist but doesn't want to show her emotion and give the journalist any power. This challenges stereotypes as women are usually seen to be emotional and weak where as Maria is shown to have a strong female role.

The Journalist (Peter Stone)

Peter is shown to be from a more working class background who has just entered the journalist industry and is trying to work his way up to be the best. He has been given a case to work on which involves working with a strong female role who is annoyed by Peter's involvement. However, Peter does not seem to appear intimidated by the role of the female detective as he knows he could ruin her career if he wanted to. He is shown to be young, in his early 20's therefore appears inexperienced. He is intelligent yet sneaky which is shown at the end of the trailer when one of the last scenes is the journalist opening a door to a dark room curiously as if he doesn't want to be seen. This leaves the audience on a cliff hanger asking questions about his intentions.


The Prisoner

The prisoner is shown to be from a working class background, who has been falsely imprisoned and charged with a murder he didn't commit. Due to this he is shown to be depressed and feeling helpless. He talks about his family in the trailer when he says "Let me out, I didn't do it, I want to see my family" This shows he is actually very caring and desperate to see him family as he knows his children and wife need him and feels like he is letting them down. He is shown pacing around his prison cell in deep thought and agitated.

The Survivor

The female survivor is shown as young, innocent and traumatised. She doesn't have much to say during the trailer and when asked questions she is shown staring blankly not answering the detectives. However, when she does speak she has a one line dramatic piece of dialogue which intensifies the scene. Her lines are "They're all dead" "Help" and "I don't think I can live without my family any longer" the fact she doesn't say much and chooses to remain silent when being questioned shows how traumatised and in shock she is. She has just witnessed the murders of her whole family in front of her and now feels like she has nothing left. She holds the key information in this trailer as she saw the murderer herself but it is proving difficult for the detectives to find out this key information and makes their job more difficult.