Character Influences - Leigh

(BCS & Possible BCS Later Character)

Effy Stonem & Naomi Clark

 

I was inspired by the skins characters 'Effy Stonem' and 90210 character 'Naomi Clark' for Leighs character, which will be the schools popular rich girl. When first seeing Naomi and Effy's characters I imidiatly wanted to combine their Personalities and dress Leigh like Naomi. Leigh will be seen as Queen Bee like Effy and Naomi and seen as a good girl but also kind of 'mean girl strike' like both characters.

Leigh's costume will be a school uniform seeing how she is a 6th form student, with a short skirt a long cardigan and high heels to show she is fashionable in school. Outside of school Leigh will wear clothes like Naomi sometimes but also clothes like Effy to show she isn't just a little spoilt rich girl. I want to keep the same conventions of a young, popular, white, rich teenage girl.

For the personality I think a mixture of Effy and Naomi would be good for the character as they are both very emotional characters and I think their personalities would look well mixed.

Naomi and Effy's hair and jewelery convey someone with a lot of attitude and I want the same for Leigh, therefor I have decided to use big hair like the girl, short skirts and a lot of exspensive Jewlery to show a rich girl that bends the rules.

Naomi is introduced as a privileged student unlike Effy and I want Leigh to be privileged to. Leigh like Naomi initially appears to be snobbish and shallow, Naomi is also very popular and I would like to make Leigh like her. Throughout the series Naomi's character developed and we find that she is actually a very kind and thoughtful friend, this is the same story as Leigh.