PLANNING: INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS

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I read through this article by Charlie Sierra, he talks about how we can get to know our characters. We are going to do some character interviews to get to know our characters a bit better, learning about their point of view and their personality. He writes about how we should think of it like a questionnaire which the characters need to fill out. For our film we are going to interview the mother and the two siblings which are all our characters so we will be able to see three different view point as they all have different ideas about what is actually going on.


Our 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'

Mother (Mrs Hodgson)
Home on the sofa with a journalist interviewing her.
'nice to meet you Mrs Hodgson, we would just like to ask you a few questions concerning your eldest daughter, Cara.' The journalist
Mother agrees by nodding her head calmly
'thank you, I understanding this may be hard but I want to get a deeper understanding on what happened to Cara'
The mother continues to have a blank face.
'Is it true you had an argument with Cara the night she went out'
'I don't see why this concerns you, it's none of your business'
'I understand Mrs Hodgson'
'would you describe your self as a liberal mother?'
'I would say I was fair 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 but its got nothing to do with it' 'I believe that Cara is gone and she's not coming back'