Monday, 15 September 2014

Me and Josh developed a scene using our two chosen characters that we saw on the way to school, using the developments we created a scene where my character, a teenage school girl, asks if the seat next to a man, a kind father, on the bus was free. Using the aspects of Who, Where, When, we originally developed a scene that both characters were travelling on the bus at an early time in the morning. However, we then decided to switch it to a busy train so that the man felt required to ask if the girl wanted to sit down - thus, encouraging conversation.

We then used 'Want, Do, Feel' to further develop the scene and characters. I gave my character the want to get to school, she does this by getting on the train - where she meets the obstacle of the man's questions - and ends up feeling annoyed/uncomfortable. This really helped me add characteristics to my character and really develop and being to understand her personality. It also meant that there was colour to the scene, it had detail that only I, myself as the actor, would know. It helped our characters relate and a communicate with one another as it gave us an idea how to play the scene as successfully as possible to relate to our "Want, Do, Feel"s.

We then moved on to putting 'actions' onto every single line of text spoken, giving us an understanding on what our character is trying to communicate with their very few lines of dialogue and how we should perform them to the audience. Josh's character's lines were generally action-ed as 'to question' and 'to persist', this was shown through the fact he persistently (all in good nature) asked questions even though the girl obviously didn't want to have a conversation. I action-ed my first line (thank you) as to respond, as my character responded gratefully to the fact the man gave up his seat to let me sit down. But, this changed quickly when he kept asking questions to which I gave my lines the actions of; to answer. My character answered shortly and with very little detail in her answers - this was to portray her feelings to the audience and how bothered she was by the man trying to start conversation, she just wanted to get to school and didn't need this obstacle in her way.

We then switched the want of the scene and experimented with how differently our characters would respond to that. So if we switched the objective of the scene to something like both our characters just going shopping - not having somewhere important to be, like school - our characters interact in a completely different way and perhaps my character would be a lot more open to holding a conversation. This whole exercise was extremely interesting as it really helped me understand how giving your character a want and an objective in a scene really colours and adds detail that you need to make it as believable as possible. By adding all these aspects whilst I was developing the scene really helped me understand my character and why they're in the situation they're in and how they would respond to the obstacle presented.

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