So far I have written my proposal and have planned out what I’m going to study for my research project for the holidays. Character Development wise I’m still not sure what kind of approach I want to take with characters. So far all I know that I want to have them kind of opposite to each other and at least give them different genders, I also want to make them more relateable(sp?) and not the type of characters you’d see in a fantasy novels, ‘shooting magical beams of good to destroy the bad guys kind of thing.’ I also don’t want the characters to be too futuristic or historical, something modern so things don’t get too tricky, but knowing me I’ll probably want to put a million plot twists in everything, let’s see if I avoid that.
Other than planning and writing up my proposal I haven’t been doing much of anything else in this subject. I’ve been doing some film work in media studies and I think it might be influencing some ideas for my work. Previously I’ve mentioned that I read an article about interviewing your characters to develop them and that I was willing to try this out for my project but now I’m thinking that maybe I could do a live action movie on the interview as well as a short story based on it. Of course I’ll cancel the idea if things become too tricky but it’s a possibility I want to keep open. It will also be useful if I ever decide to present my research project as a video presentation rather than research information in a folder.
Also for those that don’t know TV Tropes is a great place to find information on character clichés and stereotypes, so some people might want to check them out. Here is an article on Character Development if anyone is interested:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterDevelopment
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Mind Map
Sorry for not posting often. This is my current mind map for my research project, I'll post it alone before I post up my proper blog.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Character Development
Today (well technically last week it did) I finally get to start my research project, and already I'm pretty confused, but I have figured out some of the things I want to do for it. As you know, this research project is about character development, a subject that has interested me for a long time. I hope that I will be able to update more on this blog compared to my last one. Now some information on what I did last week:
Last week I just learned of the stuff we had to do for the Research Project and have mostly no idea of what I’m supposed to do. Most of the lesson involved getting the laptops to work; they were being very slow when loading up and the internet wasn’t working for awhile as well. When the computer finally started working the class was told to write down keywords for their chosen subject. I also looked up some internet sources to help me with my subject, they seem really helpful. We were also given some sheets that would help us with the research process and with our research journal. I don’t think most of the students used them though. The rest of the lesson had to be in silence due to the rowdiness of the class but it did help me get some work done, as well as let me read a few articles about character development to help me with my research. One of the articles gave a lot of useful information about the personality and quirks of characters and another one shared some advice on how you can interview your character to help develop them further, which is something I might try in the future.
Links:
http://fullcircle.comicgenesis.com/characterdevelopment.htm
http://www.essortment.com/all/characterdevelo_rucc.htm
Last week I just learned of the stuff we had to do for the Research Project and have mostly no idea of what I’m supposed to do. Most of the lesson involved getting the laptops to work; they were being very slow when loading up and the internet wasn’t working for awhile as well. When the computer finally started working the class was told to write down keywords for their chosen subject. I also looked up some internet sources to help me with my subject, they seem really helpful. We were also given some sheets that would help us with the research process and with our research journal. I don’t think most of the students used them though. The rest of the lesson had to be in silence due to the rowdiness of the class but it did help me get some work done, as well as let me read a few articles about character development to help me with my research. One of the articles gave a lot of useful information about the personality and quirks of characters and another one shared some advice on how you can interview your character to help develop them further, which is something I might try in the future.
Links:
http://fullcircle.comicgenesis.com/characterdevelopment.htm
http://www.essortment.com/all/characterdevelo_rucc.htm
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