INTERROGATING CHARACTERS

Today in class, I looked at the book, "Riding The Alligator" -written by Pen Densham who is an Oscar nominated filmmaker. In one of his chapters in the book, he provides a check list of questions every writer and director should ask themselves when they're developing their characters. The reason for this is to get a better understanding of who or what your character might be and to carry out your story better.

The screenshots below show some of the questions you might ask yourself about your character.

click HERE to see the website for this.

After looking through these questions my group and I decided to do a "hotseat" interview for the main characters in our film trailer.

Each of us picked 4 questions that we would ask the other person and then we recorded the answers on my phone.

I asked my questions to the character Sydney. Below is the video I recorded when asking the questions:

Next, Kate came up with questions about her own character - the migrant. Demi read out the questions and I recorded the answers. Below is the video I recorded:



















Then, Demi came up with questions for her own character - Sydney. Kate then read them out and I recorded the answers. Below is the video:

Finally, Marcus came up with his own questions, again, for his own character - Aaron. I then read out the questions and recorded the answers. Below is the video: