Influence map & Character Thumbnails 2

By taking a phone from the influence maps, we drew it a couple of times to get a better idea of how it's drawn so that we could characterize it more.

Once we had a rough idea we then added some colour and changed the design to try and make it seem more old/elderly.

Character Thumbnails 1

Old Phone Influence Map

Sound Process

When we had done our rough script we was advised to cut up the sound from the interview of our grandparent and put it together and edit it to improve the sound as well as seeing if what was said made sense and went together well. The sound editing process took 4 stages.

Stage 1: The original interview

Stage 2: Cutting the questions out
Stage 3: Cutting any pauses and "umms"

Stage 4: The person talks slowly as she is quite elderly so we needed to speed the sound up a bit so it didn't sort of drag on at points but hopefully the sound still sounds natural.

From Interview to Script Process

At the interviewing stage we decided to change our approach from interviewing older and younger people to just interviewing one person, a grandparent of one of ours. This had to be done over the phone by putting the telephone on loudspeaker and recording the sound with another device. We ended up changing a couple of questions from before and here is the questionnaire we used.

Questionnaire

From the recorded sound we typed up the answers from our chosen grandparent and highlighted some sections that we thought could be useful to start writing a script with. Here are the answers.

Answers from Questionnaire

From above we came up with the first draft of our script. At this point we decided to make it seem like a conversation between two old phones rather than an interview.

Narrative Script (Draft 1)

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