CONSTRUCTION: INTERROGATING OUR CHARACTERS

During my research into the practises of professional filmmakers I came across the film website FilmEscape. On this website I discovered an article by Charlie Sierra in which she discusses the book 'Riding the Alligator' written by Hollywood director Pen Densham. She talks about a chapter in this book in which Densham describes a checklist of questions that every director should ask their actors to get a better understanding of the characters. 

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After reading the article we created a brief script for each character as our interrogation. We decided that we would ask each character five questions, four of which are tailored specifically for the character being asked and then the fifth question being the same for each character. The reason we chose to ask each character the same fifth question (which was "How far would you go to get what you want?") was to get a strong understanding of the contrasting personalities that the characters have.

 Adam Character Interrogation

As Adam is hopelessly in love with Eve his responses to the questions were planned to be very enthusiastic and loving even though deep within he knows that Eve doesn't feel the same way.

Eve Character Interrogation

As Eve is a very confused and unsure character we made sure that her answer were very vague and kept the audience (and Adam) wondering where her loyalty and love lies.

ULAR Character Interrogation

We created these character interrogations to help the examiner understand the thoughts, feelings and motives that our characters have. As Ular is a very mysterious character we kept his answers short and very vague.