Idea generation - character sheet and narrative

Character sheets

During one of our lessons with Pat we looked at character sheets. A character sheet is a list of information about a character in a film/television show and they are often given to the actor in the pre-production stage so that they can get to know the character they are playing as best as possible.

We developed our own character profile sheet of a character we like from a film or television show. I picked Rick from The Walking Dead. Below is a brief character profile of Rick.

Name: Rick
Gender: Male
Age: 30-35
Nationality: American
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Dress sense: police sheriffs uniform
Personality: tough, fair, strong, kind, harsh at times but always makes the right decision for the good of the group, he is also reliable and honest.
Friends and family: Rick has a son and wife. Later on there are character developments with his family. He also has quite a few friends , however not all can be trusted. Many also die throughout the series.
Appearance: tall, big arm muscles and brown hair.
Health: Rick often suffers from a lack of sleep, stress and hallucinations.
Ethnicity: White

My Character Sheet

I then went on to develop another character sheet for a fictional character which I thought up. Below is both sides of the character profile sheet I filled in. During the lesson we had to talk about our character to other students in the class and then match up our character with another students characters. The student I matched my character with had a very similar character to mine. My character is very shy and she isn't a people person and doesn't like socialising. She also grew up with no parents. This was the case for the character Abbie who was a very similar match to my character Mollie.

Narrative

After we paired our characters up we then had to come up with a narrative, a tagline and title for the characters in either a television program or a film. We chose to create a television program for them which would be called Numerical Order and the tagline we came up with was Two women; one legacy.

The basic synopsis focuses on the two characters Mollie (19) and Abbie (30). Both characters first meet nine years prior when they are 10 and 21 at their parents mass funeral. Their parents both work for an illegal business which they are the managers of and they run it. This stops them from seeing their children so to protect them. When Mollie and Abbie are 10 and 21 their parents die in an attack at the business. Their parents were scientists and they didn't do well in the real world of work so they set up an illegal business in which they hired hit men to assassinate un-convicted criminals. They then operated out all the criminals vital organs and sold them at a high price to wealthy people who needed life saving treatment. As a cost of such crimes the business comes under attack and the majority of the workers are killed. Nine years later the business is under threat of being completely shut down because the remaining workers leave. To keep their parents legacy alive Mollie and Abbie  meet up and decide they will re start up their parents business.

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