In this lesson we worked on Characterisation after getting are roles in Rent. Using Stanislavsky style techniques to make decisions about our characters. We started by thinking up a number of events that may have happened in the characters past. The events I chose for my character, Roger, were as flows:
- A teenage argument with his parents (He is a rebellious character and perhaps this started in his teenage years causing him to have a bad relationship with his parents.)
- Relaxing and joking around with April (Showing he was once happy and content with life.)
- Crying and alone after his girlfriend April kills herself and Roger learns he has AIDS (Showing how he become a 'broken' man.)
- Roger and Mark at high school, messing around and enjoying each others company (showing Mark as his oldest and best friend.)
This creating of are characters past helped me to understand the pain he went through loosing April and learning he has aids, so I decided he should be quite a depressed and broken character at the start of the Musical. It also helped me decide that he cares about friendships more than anything else, especially that of his friendship with Mark, as Mark and a few of his other friends where their for him after April died and helped him though dealing with his drug problem and his virus. I decided that he is a selfless character and would put others before himself because of this and that him and Mark have always been their for each other.
Then in character we were put in pairs and told to discus various topics given to us on postet notes. For example one of the topics to discus was related to drugs. This helped me to think about and decide on things that Roger believes, using the example before I learned that my character is highly against the use of hard drugs thanks to his past and going through withdrawal and coming out the other side. This exercises also helped me work on an American accent as it gave me time in character to talk to other people in character.
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