Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Professional Pre-Production: Character Profiles

Throughout this process I have been developing my characters for Pleasure Park. Now that I have finalised them, I have created more detailed character profiles. By creating these profiles, others can better understand the characters and therefore better understand the storylines across the series.

CHARACTER PROFILES

Frank ‘Mr Pleasure’ Diamond
Played By: John Challis

Description: Frank is a businessman who owns and runs the Pleasure Park Amusement Park. He’s in his 60s and has a Magnum P.I. style moustache. He slicks his hair back. He will do anything to keep the park open.

Age: 60s

Height: Above Average

Build: Above average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Kent

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Manager of Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: Always uses the phrase ‘We’ll Pleasure You’, without realising that it sounds rude. His weakness is money, you offer him money to do something, and 9 times out of 10, he’ll do it.

Costume Design: Cheap suits

Debbie ‘Mrs Pleasure’ Diamond
Played By: Josie Kidd

Description: Debbie is Frank’s wife. They’ve been married for 15 years, and they met during the early days of Pleasure Park when they were both Ride Operators. Debbie is the head of Customer Services at the park. She has a perm. She always tries her best to support Frank in every decision he makes in an attempt to keep the park open.

Age: 60s

Height: Average

Build: Average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Head of Customer Service at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: Debbie always has a smile on her face, even during the worst situations.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform, except her t-shirt says happy to help on the back, with a big smiley face.

Ned Parker
Played By: Simon Bird

Description: Ned is the Health and Safety Manager at Pleasure Park. He irritates everyone because he is so uptight about everything H&S. He also knows everything there is to know about theme parks, and he’s not afraid to show it. He wears glasses and has his hair combed over to the side.

Age: 30s

Height: Average

Build: Average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Health and Safety Manager at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: Sweats a lot when he gets nervous, especially on his upper lip.

Costume Design: A white shirt, with various waistcoats and tie combinations.

Jimmy (Jim/James) Reynolds
Played By: Clive Rowe

Description: Jimmy is the wisest Ride Operator at Pleasure Park. He thinks he knows better than Frank and wants to take over as manager. He’s known Frank for a very long time, as they both worked as Ride Operators in what Jimmy refers to as ‘the good old days’. Jimmy has a thin layer of dark hair.

Age: Mid 50s

Height: Above average

Build: Above average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: London

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: He calls everyone buddy, because he’s bad with names.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform

Daniel Waterhouse
Played By: Tom Rosenthal

Description: Daniel new to Pleasure Park. This is his first season as a Ride Operator. He has a lot to learn. He’s a bit socially awkward. He’s a ride operator at Pleasure Park. He has a crush on Emily.

Age: Late 20s

Height: Above average

Build: Slim

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: London

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: As a socially awkward person, he always says the wrong thing when he’s in an awkward situation, which only makes the situation worse.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform

Emily Roberts
Played By: Nikki Runeckles

Description: Emily doesn’t take crap from anyone. Most of the guys have a crush on her, including newbie Daniel, but none of them ever try to get to know her. She has a great sense of humour, and a bit of a dirty mind at times. She is a Ride Operator at Pleasure Park.

Age: Mid 20s

Height: Average

Build: Slim

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Essex

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: She has a dirty mind. She likes to take others comments out of context to make them sound rude.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform

Katie Smith
Played By: Jessica Knappett

Description: Katie likes the colour black. Black hair, black lipstick, black clothes, she’s got it all. Like Emily, she doesn’t take crap from anyone. She and Emily are good friends. She is a Ride Operator at Pleasure Park.

Age: Late 20s

Height: Above average

Build: Slim

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: She’s great at dishing out backhanded compliments.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform, with her own dark touches (e.g. a black jacket instead of the red one, which she is always told off for wearing)

Jake Evans
Played By: Ryan Sampson

Description: Jake is a bit of a bully. He’s not nice to everyone because he thinks it’s funny. He loves to pick on a newbie, so Daniel quickly becomes the victim. He’s a Ride Operator at Pleasure Park. He’s uniform is too small for him, so it’s always really tight, which he likes because it shows off his muscles.

Age: Mid 20s

Height: Average

Build: Average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: He has an odd sneeze which people take the mick out of. He sees it as his only weakness.

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform

Harry Clarke
Played By: Jonathan Sayer

Description: Harry isn’t the most popular person. He’s a bit of a weird guy, and it puts people off. He likes comic books and cosplay. Him and newbie Daniel become good friends right away because Daniel finds him easy to talk too. He’s a Ride Operator at Pleasure Park.

Age: Early 20s

Height: Average

Build: Slim

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Ride Operator at Pleasure Park Amusement Park

Character Traits: He often impersonates characters from geeky films and video games (e.g. Yoda)

Costume Design: Pleasure Park uniform

Reggie
Played By: Marek Larwood

Description: Nobody knows a lot about creepy Reggie. He visits the park almost every day to see all the staff. He especially likes talking to Katie, which she doesn’t like. He’s desperate to stop his favourite place from being closed down.

Age: late 30s, early 40s

Height: Average

Build: Above average

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Lincolnshire

Current Home: Fairwood, Lincolnshire

Occupation: Unemployed

Character Traits: He has a creepy laugh.

Costume Design: The same dark joggers, t-shirt, and jacket every single day.

Alfie & Zoe
Played By: Alfie Deyes & Zoe Sugg (YouTube celebrities playing themselves)

Description: Alfie & Zoe are ‘professional’ YouTube stars who are brought in by Frank to produce a brand-new advert for the park, in the hopes that it will go viral online. They make staff members complete viral challenges to create the advert.

Age: 24 & 27

Height: Both average

Build: Both slim

Nationality: Both British

Place of Birth: London & Wiltshire

Current Home: Both Brighton

Occupation: YouTubers

Character Traits: They add the word hashtag to other random words all the time whilst speaking. (e.g. that would be so #cool)

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