Sunday, 26 July 2015

It's Character Building

Still trying to pin down the first draft of the script, getting there, but admittedly the progress has been a little bit slower lately. Patrick gave us some character questionaire sheets to help us to see 'test' the strengths of our characters. That was quite useful actually. Up until this point I've loosely had my characters in mind, but I knew I had a lot more work I would need to do on them. I actually ended up coming up with a few interesting elements that I think will help to solidify some of the themes I've been looking to incorporate. Sometimes it's difficult trying to judge how much character info needs to be appear specifically in the script, and how much needs to stay off-screen as background for the actors. But I guess that it's better to overwrite then pull things back later, than to underwrite.

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  1. Thanks, Callum. Often you can massage the bio over the course of the film, but it's good to treat it as a character bible for reference purposes to ensure consistency of motivation and dialogue throughout the script. Thanks!

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