Sunday, 8 December 2013

my opinion of how the casting decisions affected the group and me


 

 •how do the casting decisions affect your group's interpretation

I believe everyone was fairly happy with the casting so were prepared for their main roles the thing that made everyone think about the roles they had were those people with multiple roles who only auditioned for one of them. Midway through there was a change in casting because someone was ill but I feel everyone reacted well and managed to cope with the change with not too much hassle. For me I looked into some of the characters I hadn’t auditioned for but had got and made them my own adding characteristics and trying out different ways of playing them and seeing how far I could take them while still making them realistic. I also looked into my main role Rodger and how I would physically play him as I hadn’t played someone of his age before so I researched into it and looked up other actors who played a character of similar age and adjusted my posture and vocals to suit the role better. I feel the casting decision aloud us as a cast to develop an understanding of how the play will look and has allowed each actor to develop their characters and experiment with different ways of portraying there characters. I looked at my characters in a Stanislavski way but adding in Brecht styles to show characterization such as gestus (repetitive movements for my character the Duty sergeant) but I also created a back story to develop an understanding of my characters relationships with other characters and figure out how they would react in certain situations.    

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