AS Level Media Studies

1. AS Level Media Studies
Mina Margo Spasic
Character Development

2. Basic Information
Name: Manuela
Race: Caucasian
Last name: Roland
Ethnicity: white
Age: 24
Religion: Atheist
Birthday: 29.06.1997.
Residence: Bristol, UK

3. Background
- Manuela lived in an unstable household growing up, having only her
grandmother as a proper parent figure. However, her grandma died when
Manuela was only 12 years old, which left her to fend for herself.
- In school she barely had any friends, so she found solace in drawing and
painting (as she did at home). She used it as an escape, she also had a
natural talent for it.
- When she rolled in the most prestigious Fine Arts Academy at a rather young
age, she grew in popularity and more and more people came to know her
name. This is when her classmates and other people from the academy
started wanting to befriend her, but Manuela wasn’t too keen on other people.
- By the age of 24, she is living by herself with more than enough money to get
by due to her popularity.

4. Personality Attributes
Strengths:
- Creative, passionate, expressive, clever, adventurous, insightful, devoted,
curious, imaginative, quiet, adaptable, deep, thoughtful, independent,
innovative, observant, perceptive, self-critical, sentimental, wise, determined,
mystical.
Weaknesses:
- Loner, self-conscious, anxious, brittle, insecure, unstable, bizarre, anti-social,
careless, impulsive, crazy, destructive, escapist, forgetful, gloomy, messy,
unorganised, morbid, narcissistic, chaotic.

5. Inner motivation:
- Manuela loved all forms of art from an exceptionally young age, including
photography, painting, drawing and music. She was eager to find out as much
as possible about artists and musicians' personal lives. That led to her
wondering what else could have been created if some creative people have
not been influenced by the society and money at their historical period. She
disappears to let go of her previous life experience and to live by herself,
where she can create any kind of art and not be influenced by anybody.
Outer motivation:
- Manuela has had a traumatic experience in her adolescence when her
grandma passed away. She was the one that encouraged Manuel a to pursue
her dreams and ignore the influence of others. After her death, Manuela
started developing fantasies about running away and travelling the most
remote places of the world.

6. Appearance
- Large, leaf green eyes, dark
eyebrows, light brown hair,
pale skin, narrow face with a
dainty nose and small ears,
full lips.
- Body: tall, petite, lean, long
limbs.
- I believe that an existing
actress that would the most
suitable one to play Manuela
is Milla Jovovich.

7. Wardrobe

8. Interests and Hobbies
Some of the most dominant interests of hers are fine arts, this includes:
- Painting
- Drawing
- Photography
- Pottery
- Music (piano)
- Poetry - Literature (Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, etc.)
Her other hobbies are knitting, baking, gardening, writing, etc.

9. Habits
- Manuela tends to run late and lose track of time.
- As she spends a lot of time on her own, she often speaks to herself.
- Usually drinks throughout the entire day (mostly wine) and she is a regular
smoker.
- She has no strict schedule and just lets the day take her where it chooses.
- She goes with the flow
- Sometimes she gets on a train and rides with no destination.

10. Examples of her Artworks

11. Important Relationships
- One of the most important relationships that Manuela had during her lifetime was
with her grandma. Her name was Valentina, she always inspired Manuela and they
spent a lot of time together even though they lived separately. She was encouraging
Manuela to pursue her dreams and to create art without the influence of others.
Valentina and Manuela had a lot in common. Manuela started playing piano
because her grandma did so. Valentina was an amazing baker, had a small garden
where she liked to spend time and would often recite some of her favorite poets. All
of this influenced Manuela.
- Manuela had an on and off relationship with her boyfriend. His name was Anthony
and she really felt like he loved and cared about her, however she could not say the
same thing about herself. He was honest, diligent, courteous and likeable and
Manuela knew that after so many years of being alone and to have a person like
him was pure luck. However, she still did not love him as much as he loved her, and
this relationship was a constant struggle for Manuela.

12. - Manuela lived in an unstable household growing up, with her parents fighting a lot.
Her relationship with them improved once she moved out. She kept visiting and
calling them once in a while, as well as sending off some the money she made.
However, she constantly felt like they had little in common and when she visited or
called them on the phone, they usually ended up having nothing to talk about.
- Her best and only friend was Amelia. They met when they both enrolled into the
prestigious Fine Arts Academy. Amelia left pretty fast due to that school being too
hard for her. However, they stayed friends and went out often. They could always
make each other laugh and Manuela really loved her.

13. She had two brothers – Lucas and David. Lucas was 8 years older than her and
contact between them was rare, due to difference in age and lack of similar
interest. In their parents’ house they just stayed in their own rooms and did not
interact much. When he moved out, when Manuela was 10 years old, she realized
she didn’t miss him as everyone else in the household did. However, her
relationship with David was different. As they had to share a room in their parents’
house, they became good friends, partially because he was only 3 years older.
Manuela felt that David, after her grandma died, was the only person from her
family that believed in her. He didn’t understand much about art, and she didn’t
understand much about astronomy, which was his passion, however she still felt
supported and cared about. When he moved out, he married pretty fast and had a
child. Manuela liked visiting them, however she never stayed for too long due to
the fact that she would become bored. She didn’t like their “basic” lifestyle, as she
saw it. She wanted to travel and see the most remote places of the world,
however, David never wanted that, and she could not understand that.

14. Fears
- Manuela fears staying in the town and country she was born in forever. She
really wants her life to be interesting and exciting and she has been dreaming
of running away and disappearing since her teenage years and she is scared
of not being able to do it someday.
- Although she isn’t afraid of her own death, due to traumatic experience in her
childhood she is scared of losing other people, like her parents, brothers,
Amelia and her boyfriend.
- Sometimes she is scared of hurting people who, in her opinion, don’t deserve
to be hurt. Due to this fear, she can’t properly break up with Anthony. She
finds him a very kind person and therefore cannot break up and hurt him.