We decided that we would name her Avery Norris and make her from a small mountain town. She is 23 and a collage student studying English, to pay for her degree she works as a line cook in a cheap diner. Though she doesn’t just cook out of necessity, she enjoys the precision that it requires and the escape that making a good burger can bring her. She is alone most of the time, making it a point to keep a distance from people. Poe, her cat, keeps her company most of the time. She says she’s fine alone but deep down she wants to have people who care about her. She cut off everyone from her childhood, including friends and family and she has nightmares about it regularly. It’s gotten to a point where Avery turns to reading and coffee as a way to avoid sleeping and escape reality for a couple hours. She wears makeup to cover up her sleepless nights, but it’s always visible. Avery meets Evan at work, he’s kind and charming, and most of all he cares about her. But in the end, it’s not enough. Avery doesn’t believe she’s worthy of love, so she leaves him.
To illustrate my character my group created representations of her interests and environment. We used Canva to create a color scheme for the character in different parts of the story. We created a playlist that illustrates her journey from leaving her hometown to where she is at the end of the story, we used YouTube music for this. We created her apartment using Canva, and we created a mood board using Canva as well. All these elements together could give someone a good idea of who Avery Norris is.
My group organized all our elements in our character station by putting the different elements of our presentation on different computers. We had four in total, one had the playlist, one had her apartment, one had the mood board, and the last one had a description of our character. We printed out the color scheme and brought in a drawing of Avery. We also brought in makeup that represents what Avery would wear on a daily basis to hide that she didn’t sleep well the night before.
My group developed Avery by thinking about who we were as people, and the trait we needed to represent. The decision the make her female, and present as female was one of the first things we did because something like gender would be essential to who that character is. We gave her a little bit of the feminine girl stereotype. She loves to wear bows and makeup, she wears jewelry and has long hair. But she also loves things like cooking and reading, which wouldn't necessarily fit that same stereotype. We developed Avery in a way that would best represent the person we thought would best fit the card we were given.
I feel like my group did a very good job with creating all the elements of Avery’s character. She feels like a fleshed out person and we put a lot of thought into this project. The outcome of the project wasn’t exactly what I was expecting when I first heard the character trait we were given, but overall, I think we made Avery come to life, and that's what this project was about.
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