We’ve discussed the characters, who they are, their persona’s and what importance they have to the show with the writers, but I guess we never really got a great understanding of them. Although, after we filmed the pilot, we we then able to grasp this greater understanding of the characters, and figured out what changes needed to be made in order to make this a desirable web serial with characters that appeal to the audience.
Basically, each of the characters need to work on a defining persona to stand out from one-another. While filming our pilot for ‘Ghastly Solutions’, we were entirely lucky to have a diverse group of actors that portrayed each character so well, but without this wonderful cast the personas of each character wouldn’t really be evident or divisible from each other, which is a problem in character development.
When creating a show that has recurring characters, it is extremely important to make each character relatable in some regard. Whether it be their deadpan voice and sarcastic personality or one’s feelings of complete isolation, their personalities and problems they face need to keep the audience’s undivided attention and loyalty. In this world of the World Wide Web, you have to have the ability and hook to attract a variety of people to watch – and stay watching – your serial/series.
Ultimately, we are aiming for each character in our serial to be relatable and diverse in their own right, making them irreplaceable to the storyline of the show. Robin pointed out after our presentations, our incorporation of Arabella even in the background, and emphasising her persona is really what makes the audience invested in watching a serial. The audience will thus want to watch the show as to see what will happen to these characters that they have gotten to know and grown an attachment to, what sort of developments will happen to their personalities, and what occurred to cause these changes.
Ultimately, filming the pilot was interesting in regard to getting to know each character better, as we saw them being played out by human beings rather than reading their lines from a piece of paper. Seeing this in person allowed us to assess them critically, reporting back to the writers who are able to take these points into consideration and alter them in preparation for the rest of the series.
