Characters in "Street Style"

In order to make our opening sequence story interesting, we had to make sure we had well written and interesting characters which fitted the drama genre. For this, we did research and decided on what our 4 main characters would be and how they would included in the beginning of the story. We write up information about these characters before putting them into the script and then did short auditions with the actors we thought would fit them best.

These are our 4 characters:

ELEANOR

► Name: Eleanor

► Age: 17

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Light Brown

► Eye Colour: Green/Blue

► Height: 5’4

► Passion: Dance 

► Character: Quiet, Brave, Focused on her goals despite her troubled past.

► Occupation: Student in a dance academy,gets involved with gangs so she can afford dance school

► Friends: Tori (best friend) and other people from her dance class

► Figure: Medium height, thin but healthy body, strong legs, skinnier arms and rather broad shoulders and straight poisture

► Weakness: She is not as strong as she acts and tries to be, breaks down under pressure and falls in a bad place

► Wardrobe: Dark, baggy clothes, dirty shoes, effortless look to show she has given up on impressing people and has bigger problems to worry about

► Accent/Dialect: East London, uses jargon when with the gang, speaks properly with her friends to cover up her background

► Voice: far from high pitched, more developped and reassuring, quiet as if she doesn’t want to be noticed

► Taboos: her family and financial problems

► Motivation: the big dance competition coming up 

► Wishes: winning the dance competition and getting out of her debts 

► Mood: Sad and Paranoid all the time

► Enemies: Jack and Camilla

TORY

► Name: Tory
► Age: 19

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Auburn 

► Eye Colour: Green

► Height: 5’6

► Passion: Making people happy and mentoring the younger dancers

► Character: Happy, Girly, Cheerleader Stereotype, Supports Eleanor and guides her through her problems
► Occupation: Student in the dance school from above, volunteers to mentor the younger years and visit their lessons
► Friends: Gets along with everyone, but has one best friend - Eleanor
► Figure: Tall, Thin, typical ballet dancer figure
► Weakness: Trusts people way too easily, is very innocent which can get Eleanor into trouble when she is not careful
► Wardrobe: Bright coloured crop tops, leggings, tight, trendy clothing, typical girly colours, well done hair and perfectly done makeup
► Accent/Dialect: Normal, teenage english, uses typical teen internet slang, nothing too specific - exactly the opposite of Jack
► Voice: High pitched, speaks fast and excited
► Taboos: She has no taboos … she is an open book
► Motivation: Other people’s happiness

► Wishes: To help her best friend deal with her problems and get her to see the bright side of life

 ► Mood: Happy, cheery no matter how bad the situation is, always excited and wide awake

► Enemies: No direct enemies, dislikes Jack and Camilla because of her best friend

CAMILLA

► Name: Camilla
► Age: 17

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Black and Blonde

► Eye Colour: Brown

► Height: 5’1

► Passion: Causing drama and chaos, defending her gang’s title and boosting her confidence by making others feel bad
► Character: Mean, Violent, ‘Chavy’, disrespectful and challenging
► Occupation: A student in a fashion college, gang leader
► Friends: close with Jack and two girls that always trail behind her, but has no real friends, she is too self absorbed to care about anyone else
► Figure: Short and curvy, small frame but good build to defend herself if she was to get in a catfight.
► Weakness: She is nothing without the gang and Jack backing her up - she is helpless because of the lack of intelligence and common sense.
► Wardrobe: Dark, tight clothing, branded and trendy, takes her appearance very seriously.
► Accent/Dialect: Foreign accent (sounds Spanish), uses same dialect as Jack
► Voice: High pitched, speaks fast when she is angry
► Taboos: Her school grades and her family
► Motivation: Other people’s pain and misery

► Wishes: To put people down in order to feel powerful

► Mood: Either calm and rude or angry and violent

► Enemies: Hates a lot of people but mainly Eleanor

JACK

► Name: Jack
► Age: 19

► Gender: Male

► Hair Colour: Dirty Blond

► Eye Colour: Blue

► Height: 5’10

► Passion: Violence and Harming people

► Character: Short Tempered, street smart, manipulative and confident in his power over people

► Occupation: College Student as far as the country is concerned, Gang Leader
► Friends: Is close with Camilla, his right hand, but has no real friend or people he can trust

► Figure: Tall, looks skinny and normal but has strong legs, healthy and strong enough to fight back if he has to
► Weakness: Gets outsmarted by Eleanor which makes him look stupid in front of his gang and messes with his self esteem
► Wardrobe: Dark, baggy clothes, branded clothing, good planned outfits, has a little bad (pouch) he carries everywhere, his shoes are always clean and well kept, takes very good care of his appearance
► Accent/Dialect: South London, speaks in jargon only, often uses confusing terms to make the audience wonder what exactly he is talking about
► Voice: Deep, emotionless, monotone, as if he can’t be surprised, is always calm and has everything under control
► Taboos: His feelings, opinion on the people around him and anything to do with his family and past
► Motivation: questionable

► Wishes: To get his money back and bring Eleanor down
► Mood: Calm and careless all the time

► Enemies: Eleanor

These are the auditions we conducted:
We also wrote up all the actor information for the actors we auditioned, including parts of the script the auditioned with, which you can view here: