Planning out your characters is extremely important to complete and enhance the narrative of a piece of work. By creating your main character, developing their visual style and their characteristics, you can then start to plan out the plot. I read the chapter 'Character Development Over Time' in Animated Performance by Nancy Beiman.'An animated character develops a character arc through learning a life lesson', realising an error, overcoming and obstacle or discovering its own strength' (Beinman, 2010:218)
I am taking this fully into account when creating my own main character, Rosie Shepherd. My character will be a victim of cyber bullying which means there are a lot of obstacles that she will be faced with. Theses will help to shape her character and to pull the narrative along. I have been trying to determine how my story will end, what will be the final solution. After reading the news stories on Amanda and other teenagers who have suffered in the same way I thought I would end the story with the girl committing suicide to highlight how drastic the consequences are. However after some thought I decided this was too much of an easy end, it was not exciting in anyway and offers no solution or hope. Therefore taking into account Beiman's thoughts I have decided that Rosie will suddenly snap, having had enough of her treatment and then grow in strength. She will overcome the cyber-bullying by going through blocking them, changing privacy settings, removing the platform that the internet had created for the bullies.
Beinman refers to Superman as a character example within this chapter, describing how he was born invisible and fought criminals. The audience then find themselves able to relate more with a character if they are seen to be nothing out of the ordinary. Superman makes them believe that anybody can make a stand against criminals. In terms of my animation it will prove that anyone can become a victim but also that you can have the power to stop it too.
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