Character Development

Development-

-Developing a character is important as it transforms an imaginary image into a more relatable, memorable and complex person or individual. It gives the audience someone to connect with throughout the story. The investment that comes with clear backstories and motivations, drive the character into the story's outcome as well as personal growth within the character. 

-While coming up with. our character Aver Dawson, my group and I had to create many factors about our character that aided her within the story of our film. First was choosing her name of course.

NAMING OF AVERY DAWSON-

-Choosing a name for our character was essential. As we wanted her name to not be too common but also not too unknown. We wanted her name to represent her as a character as well as personality. My partner Jade and I searched throughout many websites of girl names that could maybe call out to us. We went through many parent searches as well. Which mostly included names such as, Amanda, Riley, Abby and so on. From the start i knew our character's name should start with an A, from the moment we came up with the character, just her essence made the first letter of her name an A. 

-After searching for another while, we came across a website full with names that start with the letter A. That's when we came across the name Avery. From the moment we saw it, it just felt right, the name itself is interpreted as meaning "wise". Being associated with wisdom and nature, the name fitted right with our character as her nature is in turmoil, yet she fights through trying to provide wisdom and clues to the Police officers. Avery's last name: Dawson, was the same process yet it hold no meaning as it just fits the character itself. 

- The same process was used for her best friends name. Yet for her name there was a twist that we wanted to add. We wanted her friends name to mean something if written backwards. Kind of like a palindromic name yet when spelled backwards it spells something different. While searching, we came across the name Raven, which spelled backwards is Nevar. Jade had the idea that this would fit perfectly as our character is meant to write something on the wall of the cell she is trapped in, yet we could never figure out what Avery would write. But Jade came up with the idea that "Nevar" sounds like the word "Never." Since we want our character to look unstable and crazy in some way, so having Avery write repeatedly the word Nevar on the wall will give that specific look that my group and I want to project towards the audience. 

CREATING AVERY-

-While starting the storyboard, my group and I decided that we should add a backstory towards our character to give here more depth. Avery is a seventeen-year old girl who is more of a reserved girl. 

-Currently she is a senior in high school with one best friend name Raven. Our main goal is to have our character be the "typical quiet girl" who is not much of a social person with a super extroverted life, instead she is the complete opposite. 

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Importance of character development