For those of you who may remember I posted this post not so long ago:
http://wordsformwindows.com/2012/08/23/feature-film-plan-draft-1-part-1/

Well scrap that idea! (Well, I haven’t scrapped it I’ve just filed it away for later use)

Yesterday I had a lecture based around Characters, and how to make them believable. To do this we thought about the back story for the character and how this affects how they are during the start of the film.

We were set the task of getting into pairs and answering the “ten questions” you should ask yourself when creating a character and thinking about how they fit in your story. I will include the ten questions at the end in case you’ve never seen them before. Needless to say, I could answer the questions but they didn’t fit with my plot, and the key concept I wanted to tell was of the character over coming his nerves and shyness, his fears etc. And I was trying to force him into a plot that wasn’t right for him, like pressing a square peg into a round hole.  Continue reading →