Characters in our opening scene & social groups

For our opening scene, we decided to use only one character, as we felt that this was the best way to represent the isolation. Our character is female, and has been surviving in the destroyed world by herself. Her family contracted the deadly virus which wiped out the population, and was the only one to survive. She is represented as strong, and is able to look after herself without the need of a male. We wanted to challenge the stereotype of the female gender by making her the powerful gender rather than a male.
We decided against a male character, as we felt that this would have reflected the dominance of the male gender, and would almost represent that the woman couldn't fend for herself.

Although the opening scene doesn't give too much information about the class of our character, we wanted to represent a character who perhaps took life for granted before, but now would do anything for life to be back to how it was.

• Strong female character
• Aged 16
• Shown as an isolated female
• Would do anything to have a life like she had before