First Ideas:
We now have a rough idea of our idea and what we want our film opening to be. Next, we need to discuss and figure out who we want our character/s to be. The film is a suspense/drama/horror genre film, so we knew the character had to fit into this kind of area so that the plot also fit. First we made a list of attributes that we wanted the character to have: lonely, weird, quiet, disturbed, historic past, unusual, creepy. These are all characteristics that the range of characters have in the mind map to the right. However, after a rather heated debate of who would suit the film best? Where we could go with each character? What's the message we want to give to the audience if we were to carry this on? we chose the 40-50 year old man (in the bottom left hand corner on the mind map), an artist, who was abused as a child and enjoys being alone the most.
For our opening two minute film for our coursework we have decided that this is our character profile:
Name - Jayne Doe
Gender - Female
Age - Between 15 to 20 years old. We chose this particular age as we thought it linked well with our reference to being disturbed and weird. If the character were too old, we would feel sympathetic towards them, and if the character were younger, it would make for a cliché plot. The only other age that would work for our idea, is a middle aged (man), because it would still come across as creepy.
History - As a group we decided to make the history of our character destructive and disturbing which ultimately links to the personality traits. Therefore, we decided that the character was bullied and abused as a child, mostly because she was interested in things that the other children weren't. Moreover, she was abused by his parents, and in turn had the most effect on her and her personality. This continues the idea of the character being strange.
Profession - An artist. My group and I chose an art student for the profession of our character as it draws them away from any social environment. Nowadays, it can be construed that artists are expressive, creatively unusual, and wayward (traits that are perfect for our character). Also, we wanted to film them painting and sewing strange and peculiar things, so it fits well.
Likes - Considering our character is an artist we thought she should like being in her workshop/studio making art, and also have the idea that that's the only thing she likes doing. It continues the idea of her being obsessive and unusual. Our character, also, likes to be alone and away from the society. This is due to the fact she has no social skills as she was bullied when a child.
Dislikes - A dislike of our main character is people, considering our characters upbringing, we thought it would be fitting if she liked being alone because doesn't like people. Another dislike of our character would be seeing happy families. We thought this would be an interesting dislike due to the idea that she was abused when she was younger, and therefore doesn't like to see families that are content, because it reminds her that she had a rough upbringing.
Personality Traits - The personality traits for our character are: strange, quiet, wayward and creepy. We chose these personality traits as we need to portray weird aspects of a character to continue to the rest of the film, and therefore she needs these traits in the opening two minutes to portray this idea.
Three words to describe our character - Disturbing, lonely and abnormal. My group and I chose these three words to describe our character because we think these are three words that describe her best.
D.G
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