Character Notes - FOR NEXT LESSON
10A - Monday 7th March
10B - Friday 11th March
(this will form part of your Working Record alongside the Mood Boards and Evaluations from each task)
You can complete this as a Spider Diagram/Mind Map/simple bullet points if you wish.
1. Character Name (is there significance or meaning behind the name?)
2. How do you think you will play this role in terms of age and personality.
3. How does your role and piece fit within the original stimulus of the 'Senses'?
4. How do you think you may use semiotics in your role? (use of specific pieces of costumes/props to create meaning for the audience)
5. How will you experiment with your character? (Discuss use of gesture/voice/body language and facial expression here including how your character may walk or stand)
6. Ideas that you may have for how your character can emphasise the genre/performance style you are using to your target audience.
(e.g. Our genre is Thriller. We are using the device of Slow Motion to build tension and create atmosphere in the opening scene, in this scene, Frankie (my character) walks slowly up to the house and looks around him showing how scared he is and creating this image for the audience. Because our target audience is teenagers we are trying to increase the level of supsense through the scenes eventually building to the horrific end. We are using Traverse staging so that the audience will feel like like they are a part of these scary scenes and are included in the tense atmosphere, they will be able to see different reactions at different times dependent on which side of the audience we are facing. I will have to be careful about this particularly in my Monologue and make sure I consider not keeping my back to one side for too long. I could keep the action at one end of the stage and face downward (like the top of a Cat-walk) so all the audience can see and hear me at this point.)
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