Character Development - Personality Research

To construct my character, I have taken inspiration from an individual who plays a big part in my life, my brother. Aspiring to be an independent individual, my brother spent a lot of time in his room, isolated from his family and friends, as his approach to achieve his goal of independence. However, spending time alone was actually not a enlightening experience for him, and he soon fell into depression. I am hoping for my character to be an extended fictional representation of the way in which my brother lived his life at his point of depression. However, it will be portrayed in an exaggerated and light hearted manner to showcase what people often stereotype an independent life to be. I will also take inspiration from other aspects and personalities from within myself and the people around me.

Personality Research
A trait of personality that reoccurs through nearly all personality theories, is the extravert and introvert ideaology. An extravert is an outgoing, socially interactive individual, where as an introvert is a more resilient and reserved individual, in contrast to an extravert. However, the most relevant personality for my project is introversion.

Introversion
"The state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in ones own mental life". Popular writers and theorists have identified introverted characters as individuals who energy tends to flourish through self reflection and dwindle with interaction. This character trait is very often misunderstood and stereotyped incorrectly by both extraverts and introverts.
Introverts are often stereotyped to be lonely,unfriendly, unsociable, unhappy, shy, negative characters who spend extensive time alone, due to their tendency to find less joy in large groups than extraverts do.

My character will display all of these stereotypical traits as a comedic asset within my short film, to exaggerate the introvert personality. This exaggeration will hopefully help me achieve the aims of my short film.

Here is a clip taken from Ted.com, showing a speech about introverts which is delivered by Susan Cain, titled "The power of introverts"