Research - How to portray Steve. [INITIAL]

Background
In our film, we want to create a sense of fear for our target audience in more than one way. We chose to create two different characters which will create two different kinds of threat. The first is Steve who provides the physical intimidation element, using verbal and physical violence; his body being his key strength. Whereas with Jane, who is a more complex and complicated character, we want to portray a more mentally scary image. Steve We want our audience to believe that Steve is the ring leader of both himself and Jane. Steve's violent nature makes it seem as if Jane isn't really his wife, and that she is simply another one of his victims, who follows his orders rather than being tied to a chair. However as the story progresses we see that Steve may be the victim of Jane, he simply has more physical strength whereas she uses her mental strength to control him and order him to do as she pleases. Steve is merely pleasing his wife in order to ensure that she doesn't harm herself. Steve may or may not understand that what he is doing is wrong, however he continues to do so by the orders of his wife. His wife could merely say one of the 'children' has upset her, so Steve automatically goes to sort it out, as if her were programmed to do so. Steve is seen as the bad guy throughout the start of the film, allowing the audience to have mixed feelings for him. They hate and fear him at first, then realise that maybe he's just doing it all to please his wife, and that he doesn't intend to hurt the hostages that he and his wife have captured. To get some background research for our character Steve, I have analysed the way in which other films portray characters similar to Steve using Mise-en-scene. Here are some examples;
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The previous clip shows how some predators work in order to entrap their victims. The kidnapper in this film at first appears to be helpless in order to entrap his victims. All of his victims appear to be female, possibly due to the same reason as our character Steve. The female's can't over power him like a male could. The kidnapper in this film is kidnapping these females to fulfill some need that he has. We can relate to this character for our film since our character is also kidnapping in order to fulfill the need to have children. Throughout the entire scene the kidnapper is shot under low lighting, so you can't get a clear image of his face. This symbolises that he has two sides; the helpless part of him ensures that he can entrap his victims, and his dark side is the fact that he wants to entrap someone, and that he punishes them in order to do so. We can now consider using low lighting in our film as we know that Steve has a dark side, the lighting will simply enhance this.
The People Under The Stairs (1991)
The previous clip shows how easily a man can be persuaded to do something by their wife's command. The mother in the clip simply says 'she's been feeding that thing between the walls again' and her husband knows what he must do in order to keep the mother happy. He has to punish the girl to show her that what she is doing is wrong. This is similar to what happens in our film; the mother, Jane tells her husband, Steve that one of the girls has been misbehaving, and would her sort her out. Steve does just as the woman says, he wants to please his wife, so will even go to hurting children/teenagers in order to do so. We can also use the way in which the male character of this film uses his eyes to show that he doesn't care what he does, and that in fact he enjoys hurting this child.
The Shining (1980)
The previous clips shows Jack shouting at his wife for breaking his concentration. Even though Jack has power over his wife we don't want to create this with Steve for our film, however the way in which Jack simply goes from being nice to his wife, then shouting at her the next minute, is something we want to create in Steve. Steve has a dark side, just like Jack and we want to show how he changes from being all loved up and caring with his wife to angry and shouting at the hostages. The way in which Jack's eyes and facial expressions also show that he has turned angry is something else we want to create in Steve. Even though it will be clear that Steve is angry, the use of tormented eyes can also emphasise that Steve gets some enjoyment out of what he is doing, just like Jack seems to enjoy the fact that he is shouting at his wife over the smallest thing.