Character Ideas

As it is a spoof film, we need to take bits from all aspects of the vampire phenomenon such as other popular TV shows or books, etc. The whole point is that the audience recognises when we are taking the mick out of something, thats what makes spoofs funny.

We are also hoping to take inspiration from other Vampire films and TV series such as the CBS series 'Moonlight' which although popular at first, was cancelled after a year. It still however offers some good ideas because the vampires in the story are very open about their desire for blood and where Jason Dohring’s performance was concerned this was almost comical.

A relatively new series that has started recently is the extremely popular Vampire Diaries series on E4. Going into their fourth season, there is a lot to take inspiration from. One of the main characters 'Damon Salvatore' played by Ian Somerhalder brings the comedy in the series much like Jason Dohring from 'Moonlight'.

Our main aim is to make the spoof comical; we need to show this comedy in the trailer by including about 8 scenes from the proposed film. We need to show comical moments in the film without giving too much away resulting in the audience feeling no need to go see the film. We also need to take into account the humour of the audience that were aiming at. Young adults tend to have a pretty crude sense of humour and are easily amused by the weird and wonderful. This is something that we would like to incorporate into out film.

We also want to look at exploring our main characters sexuality in order to create humour. We thought that our main character can be straight but "in touch with his feminine side" i.e. he could have his hair gelled back with black eyeliner. We feel that is it important that the other characters in the film need to be really ordinary and much like the audience members so they have someone to relate too. This is important because it will help the audience feel like they are involved.