PLANNING: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

As part of our production we are going to do a 'hot seat' interview to give more of an incite into our main character and the background of it all. We are going to find a realistic interview place. For our opening, Robotica, we decided to film our protagonist in order to develop his character further. This will be me as I am the CEO our company, Robotica, and I will discussing AI and our company in more detail. 

We were inspired by an article written by Charlie Sierra about building the back story to film characters, in which he quoted from the Riding the Alligator, a book written by Pen Densham, an Academy Award nominated film maker.
  In one of the chapters in the book, he provides a check list 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

Character Development- Our Hot Seat 

As i said earlier, we created a hot seat interview with myself, CEO of Robitica, to create a better understanding of the company and the character himself. We set up two cameras to get the right angle of the over the shoulder shot whilst using the film technique of shot- Reverse-shot. 

Myself and Tom had scripted together what we were going to say in the interview as a prompt. As an additional prop for the hot seat interview we decided to buy clip on microphones, we wanted this as we thought it would create a very crisp and clear sound to the audio.

 

We decided to plug the microphones into our phones rather than the camera as we thought that it would sound better and more professional. We then sent the audio clips to Luca who inserted them into the clips.

This is our final Hot Seat Interview