PLANNING: GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CHARACTERS

We have decided to interview three of our characters, the mother, the younger daughter and the elder daughter. I looked at this article called 'Get to Know Your Characters by Giving Them a Questionnaire', which was written by Charlie Sierra. He spoke about the book called "Riding The Alligator", written by Pen Densham – an Oscar nominated filmmaker with 16 features and over 300 hours of TV under his belt. Pen Densham talks about the importance of developing your characters and getting to know the characters that will be in your film.

Pen Densham suggests that people should create a list of questions to ask the character, so you can get to know who they are and how the behave.

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Interview- Younger sibling
exchange in whats apps messages between Emily and a friend.
'are you alright'
'yeah'
'how's your mum?'
'She is fine, why wouldn't she be'
'well you sister's gone emily, she's not coming back. You need to accept death sooner or later. always here to talk'
'I don't need to talk, I'm with my sister'
'What?'
'I'm sitting next to my sister'
'you have to let it go someday'


Interview- Mother
mother interviewed by a journalist 
'Nice to meet you Mrs Hodgson. We would just like to ask you a few questions concerning your eldest daughter Cara'
(Mother agrees by nodding head calmly)
'Thank you, we understand this may be difficult for you. I would like to get a deeper understanding of what happened to Cara.'
"It is true you had an argument with cara the night she went out?"
"i don't see how this concerns you, its none of your business"
"i understand mrs hodgson"
'would you describe yourself as a liberal mother?"
" i would say i am very fair with how i treat people and i was always very generous towards cara"
"i heard some rumours that cara witnessed a crime that night"
"yes she did witness a crime that night, but that is irrelevant""i believe Cara has gone and is not coming back"
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