Today, during our "character exercises", I believe that it truly helped me think outside the box. As I witnessed other's performances, it'd help me realize that my partner and I need to make sure that our story is exciting, and will keep the reader wanting more. For example, as we watched Kathleen Estrella, I noticed that she delivered her character perfectly! She brought her characters to life and wasn't afraid of letting loose; she definately inspired us to make sure we know about our character in full detail.
One of our characters is Livia, who is the step-mother of Natalia Donato, and the emperor's wife. The way we portrayed her was a bitter woman with an attitude, but she needs more spunk. After consulting with our student teacher Candace, she made it clear that Livia, in ancient Rome times, used people as if they were pawns on a chessboard. It made us thrive to bring out the "evilness" Livia truly has. We really love our other characters, although we need to change Tiberius' appearance, because in reality he was an ugly and an unintelligent man. Other than that, we think our character's personalities shall be presented beautifully in our graphic novel.
We're making this story dramatic, a "soap opera" if you will, which was how it was back then when Octavian forced Julia (Natalia in our story) to marry Tiberius, Livia's son. Today's mini drama 101 lesson, helped us out efficiently and helped up come up with a brighter story plot, and gave us great ideas to append. I have high hopes for our story line, and I believe it will be successful.
