Developing the Protagonist

 For my project, I knew I wanted to have one female protagonist. I thought it would be interesting to make the main character a teenage girl since a lot of zombie media have men as the main characters, it would be cool to see the perspective of a zombie apocalypse through a teenager's eyes. 

I don't want my protagonist's name to be revealed in the beginning so she will be nameless. This is because there will not be any other character for her to talk to that may reveal her name, I want to keep that a secret until later in the film when she meets other survivors and finally reveals her name. I think this would be cool since it creates a sense of mystery surrounding her.

During the opening, she will be depicted as resourceful and capable of survival. This will be shown through her dirty clothes in the second half of the opening, as well as her drawing her switchblade. The switchblade indicates that she had to kill to survive and is willing to kill again. I am thinking of including her listening to music on a Walkman in the second half which will also establish that she still finds pleasure in life and hasn't completely lost her innocence, but I am not 100% sure I will include this.