Wednesday 7th December
The aim of todays lesson was to look at characterisation within improvisation.
The main task that we carried out was an improvised scene which included 2 characters which were in contrast with each other. For the first task I played the character of a cowboy and my lecturer played the character of a nurse. As I had not watched many films or seen anything which included cowboys, I found this character quite hard to play. Halfway through the scene we switched roles so that I was now playing the nurse and Cara was playing the cowboy. I preferred playing the nurse as it was more in my comfort zone and the role was clearer to me. Although I didn’t really know how to portray a cowboy, I used my improvisation skills and tried my best to try and make the character clear. This task will help me in the future when it comes to improvisation on a larger scale which may or may not include characterisation.
We then carried out another improvisation task which included 2 contrasting characters. This time I was playing a ballet dancer and Cara was playing a shop assistant. I felt like this task went better as the character that I was playing was more in my comfort zone. A target that I could aim for is to try and play more characters that are not like myself. This will improve my skills as an actor.
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