Drama Project seminar

During this week's seminar, we used the time to think about the importance of character development in Drama filmmaking. For this, I worked with Oliver Guy to follow the below list of questions for a character of our choice. We chose to base the character on an idea that I had come up with during the same seminar, whilst watching another short film and then discussing the possibilities and room for creativity that becomes available when using a single space as a filming location.

Still keeping with our aim for the project to not follow a literal journey and be kept as simple as possible, I came up with the idea of filming within a single room, and never letting the camera or character leave this one single space. From this, we developed a character who suffers from Agoraphobia, a fear which is hard to define but is often described as being afraid of public places and places where escape may be difficult. After developing this character by answering the questions, we both began to see potential for this to be made into a interesting drama film which would provide us with a challenge for our final film project for the year - filming in a single space with a single character.

We also thought a lot about and discussed how we could further develop the character for the viewers, and how we could very subtly adapt areas of the set design within the room to suggest elements of the character to them without giving them too much information.