CONSTRUCTION: CHARACTER 'HOT SEATING'

It is useful to build your characters by 'interviewing' them (as if they were real-life people)  

The idea for this comes from an Academy Award film-maker Pen Densham in an article entitled 'Riding The Alligator'. He provides a check list of questions every writer and director should ask of themselves when they are developing their characters. The purpose of this is to outline a deep understanding of your characters for both the actors and director, and for motivating your character’s choices or actions.

You can interview them and video the interview. You can be creative in deciding the format of the 'interview' by hot-seating them so that they reveal themselves. It is creative and fun.

Examples from our previous students:

• include this which involves video 
• this using SoundCloud
• this which is a simple written interview at this stage.