Characters and costumes-Holly

For our main protagonist we are going to use the character of a young adult named Holly who is initially a single, shy and feminine woman who has a brief romance with a man, but throughout the video and the relationship, she develops herself as a character to show her strong and firm sense of personality, arguing and bickering with her new lover until she firmly decides to end the relationship.
Myself and Joe therefore chose to cast Holly as our main protagonist, who is not only a close friend of both of us, but has done previous projects before, starring in my own thriller last year, as well as helping on modeling shoots and plays and would therefore be confident in front of a camera as she is used to acting in front of an audience. As well as this, her own personality fits perfectly with the character, as she is feminine, confident, and slightly kooky to fit in with the whole theme of the video. We decided to keep her name as Holly as it perfectly represents her as a character, it is both a slightly unusual name, and connotes the idea of both her initial beauty, and her edgy anger like Holly itself.
Influences for such a character have sprung from characters in films such as '500 days of Summer' and 'Along came Polly' which both feature strong, quirky confident female leads, which are often classed as 'Manic Pixie Dream-Girls' which is a term coined to define these more active, indie, high-spirited female leads who differ from the stereo-typical passive cliche female roles in Romantic-Comedies and are considered a genre characteristic for indie Romantic-Comedies.