What were you thinking when you had to make choices on how to portray your character? Did you think about: What is my character’s voice? How do I walk? How do I speak? What words do I choose? What’s costume does my character wear? Elaborate on your acting process in this exercise and the challenges you had to face in this performance.
I based my character off of James Dean. I wanted to portray a rebel, a hardass and a misunderstood character. I also played a guy which is very difficult to do (gender bend) but with the right clothing and the right attitude, anything is possible. Based off the movies the Breakfast Club, Rebel without a cause and The Outsiders, which are all top favorite movies of mine, I learned the lingo, the styles, and the walk of "those" types of people.. So playing my character was not very difficult. Once I put the sunglasses on, the leather jacket and the rude boy image, I felt like James Dean himself. Once I threw in a few curse words and a cigarette in my mouth, my character became the rebel I wanted he/she to be.
ReplyDeleteAfter entering class, I was told that we all needed to be in groups to perform that night! Two of the above group's 'performers' welcomed me into their skit, and requested that my character be a high school principal who was mean to his students. The best thing about this group was that we rehearsed over and over in class - so much so that I wanted to go first. My character was stern, uncaring, and impatient. He immensely disliked the character of Dean and really never tried to get to know the people attending his school. At the end, he gets a letter from the group informing him of his callousness and forcing him to look at himself differently. I felt a strong, loud, commanding voice of authority was necessary, since it was detention and my character was uncaring. I also felt some of the scenes needed to be over the top so being in their faces was important. Crossing my arms in the beginning was a show of who is the boss. Since I didn't know I was going to play this person, I did not dress for it, but if I had the chance, a pants suit/shirt and tie would have been my choice. As it turned out, the glasses, the papers in my arms, and the pencil in my ear was all I had time to do. It was a fun experience and I thank my group for including me.
ReplyDeleteI based my charater on a snob. To get into character i had to dress the part, also talk and walk like the charater i was portraying. In highschool i was was seen as a conceited and stuck up, which in reality i was not. So in reality i beleived most of these highschool stereotypes are based on what people see on the outside but that person can be completly different on the inside. SO thats mostly what the moral of our story was, we can hate each other so much because we just judge from what we see in the outside, but in the end we have more in common then we think.
ReplyDeleteThe one and only eye catching "Basket Case"! Hahaha Oh my gosh this role was so fun to play my character was so different and odd but it was like nothing I've ever done and I definitely would of been friends with her perhaps back in my high-school days. Anyway the choices I made when deciding how exactly I wanted to portray my character were sweet and simple. First, after my role was given to me, I then thought about all the little details I wanted to incorporate when presenting my character to the audience and from there I decided I would completely become the character, this way I wouldn't leave anything out and I could lay out everything on the stage so the audience could get a real look inside Breakfast Club's shadiest/oddball there is.
ReplyDelete- Christina Cardenas