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Monday, 26 March 2012

MAIN Post 4b - Narrative / Character Research


When we were deciding on how we wanted agent Carlson to look in the opening scene, we decided to research into what other films had portrayed there agents in. the first film that comes to mind James bond. Almost every film of James bond, there is at least a few scenes were he is wearing a suit and tie, normally with a monochrome style (black and white suit and shirt). We decided that Carlson should follow this trend as we found a lot of other films to have the same dress code, however we decided that Carlson should have a more casual look as well. For example, we decided that he should be wearing a smart shirt and maybe a suit, but the shirt should have some sort of style to it.

The life of a MI6 agent is a very hard and stressful job as you are sworn to secrecy as you serve your country. Carlson is constantly trying to find to balance between his family and his work without putting either of his two lives in danger.

As we know Carlson has served over 4 years in the English army in Afghanistan.  In a risk assessment taken 3 months ago MI6 and SIS are still in a tier one risk in a national security risk assessment.  With Al Qaeda still marinating the main threat, meaning it would be hard for them to operate in England; therefore our terrorist group will most likely not be Al Qaeda or the Taliban.  However Carlson would have gained experience from fighting in Afghanistan near Helmand province.

Carlson would have learnt this from an early stage.
    Prevent- to stop people becoming terrorist or supporting violent extremism
    Pursue- to stop terrorist attacks
    Protect- strengthen our protection against terrorist attack
    Prepare- where an attack cannot be stopped

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