Character Work : Example of Character Biographys...

Throughout the last few lessons we have been focusing on characters, and how it is not the story that creates a character but a character that creates a story (example = 'Big Fish' (Tim Burton, 2003) which is an example of how the story was created from the life story of the character Edward Bloom). In order to make a believable character, one that has the ability to drive a plot, we must create a character biography, allowing us to understand the character, why they behave in a certain manor, what their motivations are behind an act and what drives them through life.

Within class we also were set the challenge of taking the characters we had created and putting them within a interview situation, where we could explore our characters more. Nicole, Caitlin and myself (and a little help from our last minute recruitment actress, big thank you to Lizzie!) decided to create a radio recording based on the life of Karen. We decided to take a more comical path, by creating a dating show (where the presenter asks the guest to describe themselves then gives a phone number for people to call if they are interested). The reason why we decided to do a radio show was also for practicality, we were given the task of creating our piece in an hour, therefore we did not have much time to recruit an actress, therefore we luckily found Lizzie who was on a free and willing to help however she most definitely did not look 40, so we thought the best path was a radio show where all that would be needed was a woman's voice.