Blog Post 30- Potential Background Characters

 Having background characters seem to be essential and extremley beneifitial in some films. Espically in documntaries, it can add a sense of realism or social context to the documentary. It is to show that when a camera is turned on it is still the same world it always is.  There are many but like most things there are there disadvantages. A large problem is usually the observer effect, background charcters are know to either accidentally looked into the camera or not realize. The point of having background characters are to make the film seem more realistic and that can not happen if the background characters are going to either stare into the camera or  performing like it is there own media production. To prevent these things from happening i have made sure to use specific background characters to make sure everything runs smoothly 


This guy is Daniel Dunham a very basic looking american, who joined the miltary 5 years ago, born in the midwest, goes home to see his parents as much as he can, and he is a IT technicain, he builds the network and helps maintain internet for the ship. 


 Next person is Jose Gonzales, he is known as the baby of the ship who does silly things in hes freetime, he is a big nerd and is always happy as you can see from the big smile on his face 

And lastly we have Sam Thornton, He is wanting to go into special warfare, But he does all the big labor parts of the ship, you could say he is very " hands on" and do all the hands off duty stuff like move antenas and run wires through the whole ship 


These characters were chosen for there outstanding personaliltiys and apsects of how they look, aswell that they were told that they they needed to fufill all aspects of the background character needs to have 


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