Our Character Interview
In our character interview, I was playing my character as if he was in an interview several years after the film. The reason we did this interview was to increase the depth of understanding about our protagonist. As a group we took the idea from Riding the Alligator by Pen Densham. Pen is an oscar nominated filmmaker with over 300 hours of TV under his belt. In one of his books, he provides a check list of questions every writer and director should ask themselves when they are developing their characters. This was to open up our understanding of who our characters actually are.
Ryan played the role of the interviewer who was asking me questions. These questions, like I previously said were to increase the depth and understanding of our protagonist, and therefore help us to structure the film correctly around him. Some of the questions which Ryan asked me were 'Who was your main motivation in life' and what has been your biggest achievement in life'. If you would like to view this interview, which I believe was key for the success of our movie as it helped us to create a realistic and dominant protagonist, you can click on the image below. This interview is also available to be edited into shorter clips. The main social groups represented in our film opening are teenagers (13-19) who are interested in sport, music or worried about their future. Our target audience was also parents with teenage children who are trying to find their own futures. If you would like to view the interview then click on the image below.
Proficient response to presenting an account of what social group your protagonist belongs to and how he is represented: you devise, act in and edit an imaginary interview with a chat show host in which your character explains his love of rugby, his father's role and his reasons for choosing to be a rugby player rather than a musician. You account for the inspiration for this approach, having read of a professional film maker Pen Densham who develops his characters in this way.
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