8th January 2013
Today we started work on Grease and the lesson was focused around character development.
First of all, we started in the computer room and started blogging about our characters and Grease a play in general. After this, we went to the drama studio and took part in several Character Development activities which I have written up about in my Character Development blog entry. First of all, Rachel would ask us a question and we had to get into groups of other characters who had the same answer. For example, one question was 'What area of town do they live in- run down, middle or upper class areas?' I decided that Doody was from the run down area. These activity not only gave us an insight into our characters themselves, but it gave us an idea of which other characters come from a similar background and have lifestyle similarities. Character Development is important as it enables you to understand your character more and this will help you play the character better. The activities that we did included the 'You Said/They Said/Dialogue' research which involved us writing down what our character said about others, what other characters said about our character, what our character says about themselves and also which stage directions. The other activity we did was work out the given circumstances for our characters which shows us why a character behaves in a certain way. I have written about these character development activities in my Character Development blog entry.
After doing the Character Development, we ran the first couple of scenes.
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