When are you happiest? When I'm with my cat.
What is your greatest fear? Falling from a great height.
Where's your favourite place in the world? San Francisco or Rome.
What's your earliest memory? Falling off the back of my chair and hitting my head on a radiator.
What makes you unhappy? Being hungover.
Who would play you in the film of your life? Scarlett Johanssen.
What's your favourite smell? Vanilla.
What's your favourite word? Subtle.
Guilty Pleasure? High School Musical.
How do you relax? Listen to my favourite bands (Alt-J, Washed Out, Frank Ocean).
If you could edit your past what would you change? Nothing as it could end up changing my entire life.
What's your dream job? Being paid loads of money to draw life drawings.
What it made me think.
Something I focused on more than anything else was that Sophie is happiest when she’s with her cat. Teenage life tends to be quite active, with teenagers tending to do a lot of things that they want to do, so the fact that Sophie answered this question with being with her cat surprised me. I was also caught by the fact she couldn't choose a single favourite place and instead gave two answers, which imply s she likes travelling. A lot of Sophie’s other answers suggest she’s generally a calm, content and happy person. I also found out that she likes cycling, reading, drawing, generally being arty, and her favourite colour is blue. From this I drew some conclusions that Sophie was a fairly cosy and homely person. So I asked her some more directed questions that would hopefully confirm this.
Would you rather sit on the sofa or lay in bed when watching TV? Sofa.
Would you rather have a hot drink or fruit juice with your breakfast? Fruit Juice.
What is your favourite time of year and why? May/June because it’s nice weather without Summer becoming too boring and long at this stage.
What it made me think.
I was hoping for answers opposite to the ones I was given to confirm my thoughts, but the fact that I was given the opposite answers suggested that Sophie gave me the opposite answers suggested to me that she was the opposite to what I initially thought. I now had this image in my head of her being in the outdoors a lot being an easy going person, spending a lot of time being happy with friends, rather than being the quiet one in the group like I initially thought. I asked some more questions.
Did you play outside a lot as a child? Yes
When you were younger at the beach would you rather build a sand castle or swim in the sea? Swim in the sea.
What time do you go to bed on average? Around midnight.
Describe your perfect holiday. A city break somewhere I haven’t been before that’s got lots of sights to see but isn’t hectic.
Do you prefer clubs, bars, or pubs? Bars.
What’re your favourite flavoured crisps? Cheese and onion.
What’re your favourite biscuits? Custard creams.
What this made me think
The fact that Sophie played outside a lot as a child and would rather have gone swimming than build a sandcastle suggests to me that she has a sense of adventure, and this is backed up by her inabiltiy to decide what her favourite place is. Having an average time for going to bed of around midnight suggests Sophie’s quite an active/busy person without being daft enough to stay up until the early hours in the morning most nights. The holiday question confirmed both of these points. The question about bars clubs and pubs showed me that Sophie is quite laid back as she prefers the atmosphere in a bar than the generally louder and busier nature than a club. The food questions showed to me that Sophie is happy with the simple things in life.
Sophie in general seems to be a fairly outdoors adventurous person who likes being busy but not stressed, has a positive attitude and enjoys the simpler things in life. I want to choose a font to base my alphabet off that reflects this, so I will choose a font that is thin and very legible as this reflects the laid back nature of Sophie. To reflect Sophies adventurous side I want the typeface to be italic as the leaning letters give the impression of moving forward. However, the fact that I had to re-think my ideas about Sophie suggests that she’s quite a complex character, so I want to pick a font that isn’t generic and has some sort of uniqueness about the shape to it’s letters. If I could find a font that has flicks at the end of the strokes that point upwards that would be great as it, in my mind, suggests positivity.
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| The Initial Questions We Were Given To Ask Our Partners |
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| Answers To Some Of The Further Questions I Asked Sophie |
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