Character Influence - Karmen

(BCS & BCS Later Character)

Jal Fazer & Nancy Hayton

I have decided to base Karmen's character on Hollyaoks character 'Nancy Hayton' and skins character 'Jal Fazer' as they are portrayed as the 'good girl'. Like my character Karmen, she too comes from a good family and strong background as I have made my characters Mother famous like Jal's father. However only when Karmen moved to BCS her life take a huge turning point and she discovers herself. When first seeing Jal and Nancy's characters I wanted to combine their Personalities as Jal is a musicain and Nancy wanted to be a journalist when she was at school.

Karmen  is a good girl that loves music and she has a great heart, she is just as emotional as the other characters but she tries to act strong as she is a feminist like Nancy.

Karmen's costume will be a school uniform seeing how she is a 6th form student,she has a basic uniform she wears a short skirt, shirt and tie, as she wears what the school asks. Outside of school she will wear urban and out there clothes to prove her individualism.

For the personality I think a mixture of Jal and Nancy makes for a good character as they are both very emotional characters and Nancy is very stuborn and I want Karmen to be these things too.

Nancy and Jal's hair and jewelery convey someone with attitude and I want the same for Karmen, therefor I have decided to use wavy hair, short skirts and a lot of wacky clothes to show this girl has a mind of her own.

Jal  and Nancy are introduced as Feisty, funny and opinionated and I want Karmen to be like this too. Nancy and Jal are not the Queen Bee's of the school and they are in their own little friend groups. Jal and Nancy knew what they wanted and how they were going to get it  and the same goes for my character.

I chose these particulate characters as when they were on the show or in Nancy's case when she was at school I loved their personalities, and I wanted Karmen to pull the same affect on my audience. So I thought that I would imitate the same personality but like Nancy a weird style with an added urban twist.