Representation, Actors and Styling

As I have previously mentioned our opening scene is based within the Soviet Union in 1980's.  Although we have not fully selected a year we still will use and portray our characters to match the appropriate era.

Representations

The main representation is that of the uniform the soviet soldiers wear, A normal stereotype would be the big hat with the hammer & sickle along with a large trench coat which our characters would wear.  Because we are making the film look like it is in the soviet union the biggest stereotype would be that it is cold and  snows a lot which is something we hope will happen to create a more sophisticated atmosphere.

Secondly because our protagonists will be British covert operatives meaning they will have to be wearing some tactical gear with winter camouflage as they will not want to be caught. This may vary on what the protagonist will wear because of the fear that it might not snow. Thus resulting in changing the camouflage to woodland to match the environment of black in case we might take after different style.

Lastly our location in devisdale Altrincham, is mainly to represent Russian countryside when it is during winter, Winters tend to be devastating to Russian homeland as it ends to drop to-27! Our bunker is a small reference to the amount of bunkers the soviets constructed all over Europe during the cold war, in total the soviets built 15,000 nuclear weapons before they were illegal to make. They had to store them somewhere without the west finding them. So the bunker is to represent the bunkers built by the soviets.

Actors

In total we only include 6 different people in our opening scene, This is our two protagonists, antagonist and three other 'extras' that our protagonists will encounter throughout the opening. We plan to only use just us two during filming as most of the characters will be wearing masks to not show our identity's until we show our protagonists and antagonists.

Styling
For our protagonists we will want them to look at lot older and make them see down as they would of been away from home for a long time, some stereotypes include scruffy beards and maybe a few battle scars. For our Antagonist we will want him to look old as He is a rouge General and we want him to look evil in his own way, we are putting an Eye-patch to give the stereotype
of evil as well as the a story behind the character.