This is the documentation of a "letsmakeamovie" workshop as part of the movie programme called Free Cinema on Tilos Radio Hungary.
Participants of the 8th edition: 12/11/2009
Editor: Killa Köllő (Trillian)
Quest: Edina Fecskó, psychologist
Side-notes to Andriska (Andy)
While our previous amateurish psychology wasn't astray, it had to be corrected at some points. We discussed the problems of the last edition with our expert, and it turned out that our point of view resembles the bio-psychosociological model of psychology.
Edina emphasized that we shouldn't handle the 11 year old Andris as a small adult, considering that this age has some psychological attributes that cannot be observed later. This age is where we enter into the concrete operational stage: the child is able to overview some situations, the stage is characterized by decisions in context. The child is not able yet to abstraction, and his system of social relationships is different from that of the adults. We have to consider these factors when matching him and his reactions to the situations.
We had an idea to make the characters older, because we will possibly have an older audience, but our psychologist made it clear to us that identifications isn't dependent of the age, we can recognize ourselves easily in a younger child.
Another question that raised during the last edition was the possible effect of the disaffected faily on the boy: the father who is rarely at home, existing basically only on paper can have the same destructive effect on the boy as the absence of the mother?
At the age of three, the boy falls in love of his mother and starts to rival his father. When, in absence of a rival ha wins the battle, his symbiotic relationship with his mother holds up, and the separation will always be hard for him. Furthermore, in the egocentric world of the child, he can feel responsible for the father not being with them, making him frustrated.
But at the beginning of the puberty, this is the absence of the male model that can cause problems, since it is very important during the buildup of the gender role, and is there isn't a model for the boy, it can lead to intense hesitations and even serious mental problems. Secondly, the mother means the total acceptance to the child, the unconditional love, while the father is the stimulant, he represents the social norms, his functions are to control the discipline, he is responsible for the development of social skills. The importance of the first is quite obvious, but we should't forget that the second can be of the same importance, especially for boys. The tense relationship of the mother and the boy can even be destructive to the soul, when it oversteps a line.
Now, let's consider the sketch of the first adult character:
School-marm Anna (Anne)
Physiology:
- Gender: female
- Age: 52
- Height, weight: 165 cm, 55 kg. thin
- Hair, eye and skin color: long, coloured auburn hair, usually in bun, grey eyes, pale-white skin
- Posture: very straight
- Look: extremely elegant, moderate, she wears well-creased skirts and chemises in grey and violet shades, she secretly paints her toenails, look grave
- Flaws: her upper denture is a dental prothesis, but it isn't obvious for the first look
Sociology:
- Class: upper-middle. She has an aristocratic past from the side of her mother, but doesn't have an effect on her wealth. She hasn't got a family. She takes her job very seriously, out of which she just makes a living.
- Occupation: chemistry teacher in elementary schools, she works as an educator since finishing her educations
- Education: college, educator
- Family life: She lives alone, har mother lives in the neighborhood, she lost her father when she was a child. He was a musician, and his airplane crashed when ha was on tour. Her mother was a physicist, she taught physics in high school, but when she got a crackup, she was relieved of teaching. While she gave up practice a long ago and she doesn't even misses it, she is still very up-to-date of theories.
- Religion: reformed, religious, but she handles this as her private affair, she doesn't want to evangelize
- Race, nationality: Hungarian, her father is kraut.
- Position in the community: she preens herself in the role of the severe teacher, she respect all her colleagues, but she honors those who she considers very cultivated. She stands up for her right, but she scrupulously cares for staying away from scandals, she considers sallies to be unworthy for herself.
- Political relationships: she has no political relationships, but she is a true conservative
- Pastime and hobbies: concerts of filharmonics, she is truly devoted to classical music, she is a very good pianist; although she has revulsions towards IT, she has just started an IT course, because she considers it dangerous that her students understand this field better then her, maybe they could even use this knowledge against her.
Psychology:
- Sexual life, morality: she had a big love at the college, that lasted 3 years, than the boy got a scholarship in a foreign country, and they became estranged from each other. They maintained the relationship by daily mails for a while, but than even this was over. She conjectured that the man had someone else, but she never pried into it. Later on she had some shorter realtionships, but she became more and more weary of looking for someone, and she gave the dream of having a family.
- Personal premises, ambitions: She would like to travel a lot, visiting the most famous museums of the world after retirement. Even now, when she has the possibility and there isn't a summer school or an encampment, so every 2 or 3 years, she leaves for a trip to visit countries outside of Europe. She would like to prepare her students for life, she would like to transmit her knowledge, and she hopes that her students will all be great people one day.
- Temperament: She is very proud of her self-possession, that no matter how angry she is, she is able to cover it. Originally she is impulsive, but she has invested a lot of energy to surpress her anger, becasue she is convinced that this is the only way to keep up her prestige.
- Motto: We should be the most strait toward ourselves.
- Complexes: a moderate superiority complex against everyone
- Extrovert/introvert/ambi.: introverted, no one can get really close to her
- Abilities: she slowly says a sentence that is seemingly constituted of gentle words, by which she is able to seriously humiliate her target.
- Good qualitites: in contempt of the surface, she can be indulgent when someone finds the appropriate tone.
- IQ: her literacy is over par, her IQ is average
According to Edina, it can be a good starting point for her role in the film that she is fiend of keeping control, of which a sign is that she chose this profession. Beyond this, there is a need for redemption in her as a transgenerational affect, since her mother was also a teacher. This personal conflict can be played out by the zombieness, she could be the self-sacrificing zombie, who advances as a helper of the children. It would also be interesting to show the great force by which her suppressed emotions flare during the transformation.
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