Exercise class 7: Character 'celebrity interview'

[shiralee saul]

Create a 'Celebrity Questions'-style profile of the main character in your project.
1. Choose an appropriate context for your interview (Good Weekend? Tractor Monthly? New Weekly? Ferret-fanciers Quarterly?)
2. Write 10 questions that would be typical of such a feature in your chosen content.
3. Answer the questions as your character would
4. Include a picture of the character.

[Amy Alexandra]

Sorry for the slow reply! I didn't receive your reply for some reason. Hopefully this one works for you.

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

Thanks, that's great! Intriguing introduction to your character!

[Jamil Luketic]

bit dodgy you cant see half the questions because im technologically retarded

[Michael]

Man, you want to see dodgy, look at my one. A+ here I come.

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

You don't seem to have uploaded it....?

[emilie]

bit dodgy you cat see half the questions but ill fix it up later

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

Great image -- but the 'interview' reads more like a literary analysis than the character's voice.

[Jamil Luketic]

My Work of ARt

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

Oh look here it is! Ignore the message above...

Hard call, interviewing a turtle -- and I think that you've only managed to capture his 'voice' intermittently. One way to check that you've captured the spirit of your character is to read out his lines aloud, with accent, intonation, etc... as you image he would sound. If it stumbles or sounds a bit silly, it's because you aren't speaking in his 'voice'

[Camilo Ernesto]

these are my ten questions of Mad magazine interviewing my character.

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

Good modulation to show your character's flashes of self-reflexivity. I'm assuming that your character believes that he is Don Quixote rather than actually is? I'd suggest you read 'Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote' by Jorge Luis Borges -- it may help you add more depth and layering to your character's 'voice'

[Michael]

whoops, put all my questions in the reply section, here it is as a file