24/11/14 - Tale 4/6

Tale 4 characterisation 

Unfortunately, on Thursday's lesson we didn't have Mr Worden, but another cover teacher so we weren't able to discuss each other's homework. But we did interpret the characters in our piece to create a small two-minute improvisation. Me, Aaron, Roseby, Rory and Anya brought the scene to life with me playing as the son (which we decided that together would be a girl instead). This was sort of like a warm-up to get us ready for the lesson. 

We went into groups of 6/7/8 and together we read tale 6. We then had to underline all the people mentioned in the play and highlight them (I wasn't there for that part because I was having my injections D:). I managed to catch up with the class from my ten minute absence and after the highlighting, we had to stick to only one of the characters (I chose the 'sly-man') and we had to create a role-on-the-wall. 

Role-on-the-wall

We had a lot of freedom to use our imagination when writing these because the character's were very vague, I nearly managed to make a whole back story for 'Mark' just by looking at the few lines describing him. I think that role-on-the-walls are very handy when creating a character because it helps you plan out and picture a rough image in your head so it's easier to refine later, and to add extra detail.

Once developing these characters, in our groups we had to create a scene to show that these characters exist outside of the script. As there was eight people in our group, we decided to split it into three groups (Me and Sarah/Ella, Ella and Tim/Aaron, Oliver and Rory) and do our own thing but making sure they link. Me and Sara decided to be the sly-man and Sara would start by saying a word on the interior of the role-on-the-wall and then me countering it with an exterior word. We did those to show the major comparison of what 'Mark' was really feeling to what feelings he was trying to show. For example Sarah would say 'Tired' and I would say after 'I'm Rough!' We didn't move, we stood/sat in the same place so the words were being focused on the most. It was almost like thought-tracking. 

We didn't actually have time to give any feedback, but I thought that each performance was very well done, especially as they had monologues which were very much improvised. One that stood out for me was Roseby's group because everyone spoke for a good amount of time and it was very smooth and it looked rehearsed. 

-Matilda ^_^