♥drama

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 { 9:01 PM }

My character is a 43 year old housewife who is constantly caring for her family. Her usual apparel is a simple pair of jeans and shirt, whether she is going to the market to buy groceries, or to the barber's to trim her hair. She has 2 close neighbours whom she talks to everyday. With them, she talks about anything under the sun. From washing detergent brands to food recipes and to the happenings around the neighbourhood.
My character shows much apprehension to the topic of the murder that happened to her neighbours. She is worried that something might happen to her family members, and is very much frightened by the killer. She shows genuine empathy towards the victims.
The script for the neighbours is a way to drop hints to the audience of the murder, and at the same time maintain a certain amount of uncertainty. The script is such that the neighbours are not allowed to reveal that the females being killed at first, were actually a family. We wanted to make the audience think that Claudia (the guy) was a hopeless flirt and therefore Denise (deranged hallucinating woman) kept killing them. We want to reveal that they are a family only at the end, where the 3 females reveal their relation to Claudia. It was difficult to avoid any mention or anything that would hint that they were a family, and the script was edited a few times. Also, we tried to avoid being too gossipy in the neighbours' scripts, which was also quite difficult!
All in all, my character aims to lead a simple life, and has a slight tendency to gossip with her neighbours. Just a very slight one. (:

-Lumjia