Development of my characters

Influences for my character’s

When looking into my characters I researched similar characters that I could take elements from and gain inspiration from. I did this for my cameo roles to gain a sense of how I could physically show these characters with minimal props so I looked at posture stance and delivery of lines for each of my roles to try and make each one unique and stand out.

Mr. Wise: I based Mr. Wise on Jessie Pinkman in the early development of the character from the TV show Breaking Bad. I looked at the change in posture from when he is high and when he is sober and look at the change in voice and eyes.  

 

 

Duty sergeant: for my role as the duty sergeant I wanted to originally play him quite serious but then as I looked over the script several times I felt like the character could be quite funny with some subtle humor so I decided to look in to several different policeman characters but the biggest influence was the two Andy’s from the film hot fuzz I looked at their style of delivering humorous lines and toned it right down and made it much more serious but still tried to keep the essence of what made them funny characters as I continued to develop the character I also added in a feeling of superiority over Christopher as if he was a child who was just wasting my time to do this I focused a lot on posture and the positioning of my hands and added in sighs and focused on some of the pronunciation of words to show my frustration at him without making it seem like my character was being unprofessional. To also work on the humor of the character I worked with Jackko who played Ed who was Christopher’s farther on subtle reactions we had with each other based of what Christopher said for example when he says the he meant to hit the policeman we both look down at him before looking at each other awkwardly I felt these subtle pieces of the character made him stand out and allowed me to play around with the character and make him my own.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rodger: for Rodger I took a different way of developing him from the way I normally look at characters often I will create a backstory and look into the characters backstory and I still did this to see how my character would react to other characters and different situations but I was listening to a song called forgive me by Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SmQ0awd7-U and I felt that it would be the kind of song that resembles Rodger a couple of months after the events of the play so I looked at what would it take to make someone feel like this and worked backwards creating a nice character with a hundred problems thrown on top of him then making the entrance of Christopher the one problem that send him over the edge and from there create the dark angry side the audience see in the play. I tried different postures and different stances as the scenes developed and tried to get more and more tense and my scenes went on till I exploded in my last scene with all these problems finally getting the better of me and realizing it all in one angry speech aimed towards Christopher. I tried building up the anger in my voice slightly in each scene to show how fed up my character is getting and it just seems in his point of view that there is no end to the annoyance that is Christopher’s presence.