PROCESS
For my film opening, knowing that I am going to include the time travel concept, I want a girl main character similar to Jenna Rink from 13 going on 30. Jenna carries traits like loyalty, passionate, and is self-centered. I don't want to copy her character, but instead, add some of her traits to mine.
RESEARCH
Dynamic/changing character- A character who changes throughout the media, could be going from evil to good or vis versa. Some examples are Harvey Dent and Anakin Skywalker. Since my brief is only a two minute film opening, its hard to include alot of major character development.
Static/unchanging character- A character who stays the same throughout the entire media. Many of these characters are produced by bad writing, but can also be important later in the story. Along with dynamic characters, my time slot will only allow minimal growth so I will probably have an unchanging character.
Symbolic character- A character used to represent the big picture in the story. Usually isn't revealed till the end of the story to make sense to the audience.
Since I am not certain what kind of character I want, I am now going to research about iconic characters I can get inspiration from:
Hermione Granger
-Smart, loyal, sharp minded, and disciplined
-This would be a fun character to work with but doesn't fit my time-travel concept vision for this film.
Elle Woods
-Confident, determined, empathetic, and intelligent
-Love her style and demeanor, fits early 2000s time more then an 80's time
Max Mayfield
-Sarcastic, tough, loyal, and independent
-She is a really good character that I would consider using but I decided I want my character to be very preppy and egotistical
Cher Horowitz
-clueless, confident, fierce and optimistic
-she is exactly how I envisioned my character to be, super fun, outgoing but also oblivious and fierce
REFLECTION
Today's research was really helpful and now I have enough starting knowledge on my character to start scriptwriting in the future. For the next step in my research I am planning on learning more about camera lighting and its impact on films. I am in the right direction and hopefully much more helpful research is to come.
SOURCES
https://reedsy.com/studio/resources/types-of-characters
https://medium.com/millennialspark/markedbytrauma-e3e31bce6848
https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Cher-Horowitz.Clueless
https://the-artifice.com/elle-woods/
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/harrypotter/character/hermione-granger/
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