Characters Work

One of my ideas is to make a character file which would be pages of information about the characters in a classified folder file to make it look like something you would find in a detective’s office.

First I made a template for the characters along with group, location, object and story templates but I decided that they were too big and it would take too much time to fill them all in so I changed it to just short descriptions under their names.

They will be in alphabetical order. First I took the characters from the film who will have minor roles in the stories and even gave minor characters’ names and personalities. I also got characters from previous college work such as the actors from the Map Soup advert and the college mystery solving teenagers from the short story and I also added the characters of other people’s film noirs to make a huge connection between the movies.

Then I took the story and characters that I planned on using in the film before we ended up going with the other people in my group’s ideas and expanded on them.

The character files will have their name at the top and information about their lives, jobs, relationships and any other important detail but without giving away spoilers for the stories, however it is expected that people watched the movie first so a few film spoilers are in the character files.

I bought a file folder online that looks close to what the confidential files look like as I couldn’t find the usual brown plain file. I chose the orange one because orange is a colour associated with prisons.

Some of the characters will have serious subject matters in their lives that are supposed to make you care about the characters or if they are a terrible person you either hate them or hope they change.

All the characters other than the ones in the movie and other people’s movies were all created by me for superhero comics that I re-purposed into film noir characters.

I also googled names I could use including names of people from other countries and even used google translate to name the mythical dragons and fictional Egyptian god.