Character Bio

In order to further develop our characters for our objective and obstacle exercise, we were to create a brief biography for our characters. We were to treat this assignment as if we were creating a "Myspace" video for our characters to introduce ourselves. Since I was a 13 year old girl, I tried to use language that typical 13 year old girls would use. And as I was practicing my script, I used a high, pippy voice to embody a teenager who is enthused about life and is excited to run for class president. Since 13 year old girls have just entered middle school, they feel that they are older than most kids because they are no longer in elementary school. So I tried to speak as if I saw myself as being closer in age to an adult. A classmate was to portray the typical smart, studious student or the nerd. In order to portray this image, she consistently pantomimed that she was pushing up her glasses. This was an effective detail that really helped the audience identify her character.