Research & Development:The Characters

The Stolen Goods

Rough Idea

The characters Aje and Ronke are the two main women from the story. Aje is the poor woman who does not have money and cannot afford a full meal; I have changed her character to being a student living in the 21^st century in Leeds. Her character is kind, shy and quiet. She hates confrontation, her introverted character traits allows her to focus on her work. She has a number of close friends that she is very comfortable with and she is close to her Aunty.

Ronke is the woman’s neighbour in the original story that seduces her neighbour with the egusi soup she cooks everyday. Her modern character is a girl who is not aware when she has upset someone. She does not have boundaries.

I have been thinking about the appearance of my characters, for example I want them to wear certain shades of colours to express their character. It is an exaggeration of the story to really show the audience who these people are with the least dialogue.

Ronke is going to be wearing darker shades of yellowish green to express envy and greed.

Aje is a gentler character so I want her colours to be white and blue. I understand that dark blue can represent coldness but I shall be having her wear soft blue and white.

The Girl That Doesn’t Speak

Bola is the daughter of Mr Akanni, her parents are separated but Bola mainly resides with her Dad. Their relationship is very playful and more of a friendship as her Dad does not place parental guidelines.

I stated earlier and in the image above that breaking down the story was hard and needed to be down so I could understand how to write the script and shot list better. I explain in the image how I broke down the story to understand where the main events take place or needed to take place.

I learned from doing this exercise how to structure my short story better because I did not want to spend a lot of time focusing on the backstory so getting to know each of the characters in and out helped me to try to show the audience what type of person they are.