Imagination Exercise

We started today's lesson by doing an imagination exercise and picturing our character. We had to picture their build, looks, hair colour, eye colour, clothes, weight, height etc. This was quite hard to do as I found it very difficult to picture Shannon with a face. I kept choosing people that I know and it made it very difficult to try to connect or become her.

We then had to picture our character in a certain situation performing an action of some kind of task or activity. I pictured Shannon cleaning No.10 Downing Street. She was dusting all the pictures of the previous prime ministers. We then had to ask her questions about what they like doing, how they live, what they're doing, who they hang out with, what they like to do outside of work etc.

This helped me to get a better idea of my character and helped me to understand a lot more about her background and although I did find it really difficult to picture her face, once I had, her image came really easily to me and her looks became obvious, which has really helped me to understand some changes I should make to my physicality, for example, walking slower, being a bit more flustered etc.

We then discussed how important our character is to the play and what the play would be like without our scenes.

My character is quite important because I am one of the 12 people that receive the bad dreams and although some of my scenes are not essential to the story-line, I feel like the comedy that comes through my lines in the play breaks up the political language, which could be too much for the audience to take in at once. I feel like I work as a comedic buffer to allow the audience to rest in-between the intense scenes.

Throughout my scenes, I manage to keep a continuous story-line. The hoover works as a lead-on to other scenes and makes the scene changes flow onto one another quite smoothly. This allows for scenes to be connected to characters and the story-line continues, without a break.