character development

Today im doing the first blog of the 4th week of the production of my film opening, and im focusing on the way my character will develop through out my film opening/story, mainly focusing on showing personality through actions, setting, and body language before dialogue. And get to introduce the main problem or tension that will reveal a lot of the backstory of the character that in this case would be her trauma, on the other hand I have the use of costume design, props, and environment that support it, and I want the character to be a good way to be engaged by the development of the character and a moment that makes the audience invest in the character’s journey. From the use of lighting, color, and music to reflect their emotional state we get to embrace a better mood of tension and a specific setting where my character will be interacting with.  I want the actions or objects can foreshadow my character's situation.

When working on my storyboarding, I had the idea that I wanted to add symbols, and kind of use different things such as objects, such as family portraits that have to do with the personal life of my character to establish their connection and their value in my characters life. Because of that, I think part of my character's personality would be emotionless or unemotional because of the fact that she was traumatized and couldn't really see her family because of how much she wanted to protect them and keep them safe, she had wrote many letters for them, And she would be the type of person to be shy and wear clothes that covered her scars and face because she got very insecure and wasn't able to dress normally because she went missing and it had been a long time, and people wanted to reopen the case so she was in danger if someone saw her.