Continuing our 'Blood Wedding' with Characteristics

Today, we are continuing on our opening sequence for 'Blood Wedding' with only 2 characters which are the bridegroom and the mother. We looked at one of the 8 elements which is Characterisation, we looked at this by being in 2 separate groups which is 1 group is only for the bridegroom and the other is for the mother. In the groups we get to brainstorm what kinds of character does our play character is (bridegroom) e.g. honest, confused, mad/short tempered, annoyed, etc. then we chose what characteristic we should use each and choose a line. To show what kind of characteristic it is we had to do a still image, then to act out the moving image and chosen line.


In the lesson, I was in the Bridegroom's Group and I chose to have the 'annoyed' characteristic and my line is "Have you finished?" to show that the bridegroom is annoyed. The rest of the class watched our perfomance for 3 times and they chose to develop my character's characteristic with Delia's 'short tempered' character, so my character has annoyed and short tempered characteristics and my movement was the same but became much more angry and more movey. I learnt that a character has to have different characteristics and the actor has to be 3 dimensional rather than 2 dimensional.