Character Updates

This was a very unique and helpful way to assume the mind of our character in order to see how they would act under many different scenarios. This really helped me and partner realize that we need to change some things about our characters to make them more “human.” There were many lessons that we learned from doing this activity. One of the main ones was we learned that our characters are “3D” not “2D.” I am using metaphors to describe what we learned but basically, people weren’t giving enough personality to the characters that they were making up, so by putting them into everyday scenarios, we can see how they would react, and therefore help us get a better understanding of our characters.
I’m not going to go into huge detail into the original story that we are changing. But mainly we added more personality to the mom, we made her more fed up with Robbie’s attitude towards life. See there wasn’t much that we needed to change. When we talked to our teacher she said that we surprisingly already had complex characters compared to most people in our class. There were also some parts in our story that we found that didn’t seem natural. It seemed sort of awkward, and unnatural. That’s pretty much all that we had to change after this exercise. I hope you look forward to reading our graphic novel.