Character Profile

Quinn Teegan

AGE: 13

HEIGHT: 5ft 6in

WEIGHT: 8st 9

NATIONALITY: England

RACE: White British

ACCENT: Bristolian

SKIN COLOUR: White

EYE COLOUR: Blue

HAIR COLOUR: Brown

HOMETOWN: Stonebridge, London

CURRENT RESIDENCE AND WHO WITH: Severn Beach, Mum and dad

PARENTS/CARERS AND RELATIONSHIP: Mum - Patricia Teegan. Stepdad – John Curtis

SIBLINGS: Brother – Cameron Teegan

SCHOOL/COLLEGE: Marlwood

SUBJECTS: England and Math’s GCSE retake and Art

JOB: Part time job at the local shop

TALENTS: Good drawer

HOBBIES: None

HABITS: Smoking, drugs and swearing

FAVORITE SAYING: ‘Gert lush’

SHORT TERM GOALS: Pick GCSE's

LONG TERM GOALS: finish school and go traveling

RELIGION: None

HOMOPHOBIC: Yes

ANY TRAUMAS: Car crash when 11

FRIENDS: 2 close friends – 1 boy, 1 girl
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: No – likes somebody but they do not know
WHY SHE HAS ILLNESS: She developed HIV which she didn't get treated. Now she has AIDS and she has 3 years to live
HOW IT EFFECTS HER LIFE: She has to take lots of drugs to control the disease which make her feeling very ill and have made her bones very weak.

This was the original actress, Madeleine.


We have decided to use my sister, Izzy, because we later found out Madeleine is not free. This is a great opportunity for us because my parents know how important it is for us to film her, which means she will not be able to say no.

We have changed our actor again to my friend Ella because Izzy is also busy. Ella is definitely free this Saturday for filming and she is completely happy and comfortable with it.






We later found out that Ella was ill Saturday, but my sister is free Sunday.

Learning comment:

We had to consider our audience and what kind of character would be appropriate. Coming of age films are filmed on teenagers so the only age of our potential actor/actress would be in teenage years. We had decided to use an actress so it was just a case of finding somebody. The character profile was very important because the film was going to revolve around this girl. Explicit information about Quinn was important because it allowed use to understand the character in depth so make sure she went with he narrative and also would appeal to the target audience. We had some trouble getting an actress, but in the end we used to sister, Izzy. This proved t be good because she was very cooperative and listened to what we were saying on our filming day.