My Character Observation

In a session, we were asked to observe people around us to create characters we could use within a drama film.

Notes:
Person: Headphones in, hood up (not raining), very tense posture, dark clothes with a guitar case on his back.

Ideas:
- Closed off from the world, has someone broken his trust/self-confidence?
- Has someone told him to do something he's unsure about?
- Has he any emotional damage?
- Struggles to communicate with others.

The Character I Created:
Sam, 18 from Urban London
Lives with his Alcoholic Father & 6 Year-Old Sister Emma in a council flat.
Mother died 2 years ago from a long suffering illness.
Routine: Goes to school, doesn't really have friends and gets picked on by almost everyone (about his looks, his clothes, living situation and family) - constantly bullied and knocked around by 'jocks'.

Idea: Walks past the underground bridge, to see a well known gang messing around, and this time walks past (and puts headphones in). Walks home (interrupted, gets a few random looks from people). Gets home. Emma is in her usual corner (out of the way of Dad) playing with the doll Mum had bought her, it was broken because of Dad's drunken rages. He never got her another, claimed he couldn't afford it. Dad isn't home yet, (probably out spending that 'no money' he has on drinks). Watches TV with Emma and talk about Mother. Dad comes home later, drunk of course. Sam sends Emma to her room (for protection), Dad straightaway starts yelling abuse towards him, self-pity/angry comments about his mother and how it was apparently 'Sam's Fault'. Sam, too angry to take anymore walks into his room and bolts it, and shrugs to the floor as his Dad bangs and hurls abuse through the door. Sam spots his guitar, plugs it into his amplifier and plays music until his father leaves, or whenever he feels like stopping - music is his passion.
He wants to get away from his father and pursue his music ambitions, however he fears for Emma's safety and can't leave her with him...