PLANNING: Interviewing Our Character

For my character in my film trailer entitled (Working Title) The Unsolved Mystery, we decided to give our protagonist a questionnaire in order to develop his character further. We looked at an article written by Charlie Sierra about such questionnaires, and he quoted a book written by Pen Densham (an Academy Award nominated filmmaker) entitled "Riding the Alligator". In one of the chapters in the book, he provides a check list of 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, and for motivating your character’s choices or actions.

As my film trailer largely focuses on the investigator Andrews, we decided that we would conduct the interview between a BBC Investigative Journalist and the Private Investigator, Andrews.