Early Initial Ideas

I was sitting on the bus (on my way home from sixth form) when I noticed a man in his late 30's, with long grey hair, wearing dark coloured clothes , reading a book on photography. In my opinion at the time this gave him an element of mystery and presence, which made me realise that when used properly, props can make any type of character seem mysterious which helps to capture the audiences attention and therefore this gave me the idea of the type of character that I want to surround my trailer around. An example of props being used to give characters the element of mystery is shown in the video below, the following is a scene from the film Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox.