For my Independent Practice I will be floowing a brief based on designing a group of survivors who have been in a plane crash. The majority of the brief is to create a full design document showing the development and process behind the characters.
My Intial ideas for the characters are to have a few archetypes and draw and develop the characters on that basis. I am going to start with ideas for a buisness man, I imagine a handsome man in a suit, this character is a born leader and adopts the role of the survivors leadership. This character will be good to have as he shows a strong presence against some of the others I have in mind.
Two characters whould come in a pair, I beleive there should be a child involved in the group. This adds diversity and but also the weakness of the fragilty of children, the character accompanying them would be the parent. I beleive the child should be a girl as young girls are often seen as more helpless and fragile allowing for situations where the adults are put in hard decisions. The parent could either be female or male, with a male the character would be more of a guardian type, putting himself before his daughter and thinking of them both before others. If a female I think the role of a strong mother works but I would also add the character to be very scared and almost looked after by the other characters.
A forth idea is to have an old wise man. This could be in the form of an old grand dad or grand mother. This allows for the use of a voice of reason and advice which the other characters can use to help them out of thier prediciment. However being old the character is frail and vulnarable, thier voice is thier main weapon.
A final character would to be a strong character but also a trouble maker, they don’t listen to the others and often opt to work by themselves and think only of themselves. A lone wolf character. He could also be seen as the bad character as he is happy to let the others suffer at his own gain. His ruthlessness and attitude is however helpful in the bid for thier survival of finding food and shelter while they await rescue.
I had listed 5 potential characters however this might change to be more or less depending on how far I go with certain ones. I will start with sketches of my ides of the looks of each character and try to portray the kind of personalitys and weaknesses/strengths I have said above.
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