Literacy Reflection - Character Scene Analysis.
For the past week in class we have been examining and talking about all the things that directors and writers do that make us understand a character. We discovered that they do this in a number of ways, including how a character dresses, how a character acts, how a character talks. Etc.
In class we looked at multiple clips from the first scenes that Harry potter characters are introduced. And we realized really quickly that most characters fit a certain stereotype because it is easier for the audience to get an understanding of the character. Like Snape, he is tall, dark, wears intimidating clothing, for example, long black robes. His gaze is icy, all of these give lots of clues to what his personality is.
In groups or pairs we wrote character scripts/stories based on a character we created, we had to keep all of the aspects that authors and directors use in mind. I wrote the script for my group but we all created the character. Afterwards I had my friend go through and highlight all of those things. Yellow for clothing and appearance, green for environment, blue for speech, red for actions. I think that helped me see what things I needed more of and less of.
I think I have done a good job of character writing by describing how the character looks, the person that did the analysis of my writing said they could easily see who the character is from the clothing, and I think I also did well with actions, the character had a lot of cool, character building action moments.
I need to work on describing more of the environment to add to the character, only a little bit of the environment added to her character but not very much. And there was hardly any description of it.
I'm finding this learning you are doing on a character writing very interesting. It's an interesting topic. I enjoyed the scene you wrote in your other blog post too. The only problem is I don't know what happens...
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