Creating a characters

Throughout the whole process of Beowulf I really wanted to create a strong character like I did in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", I loved played around with different accents, physical movement and personality to come up with the best overall character which I felt I did in the last show. So I wanted to do the same this time around, I started off just being me saying the lines but that didn't seem to fit with what I was saying so I switched to American, which was great for sometime but I thought the accent would be better suited to a different character in another show. I tried a few accents and decided to take it upon myself to learn some new ones, which did work for a while (Liveapudalin) but nothing seemed to fit. I believe this was because I couldn't get my characters physical moments right so I decided to rewind and work on physical movement first and then find a accent that suited it. After a long thought and several classes later I finally decided to stick with an excitable character, which I love to play as it sort of relates to me and it gave me room to grow and develop my character.

Although I really loved playing my excitable character I felt like I didn't play her correctly, I think this because I found my character to late in the process whereas in the last show we did together as a group I got Mrs Alexander character early on so I could branch new ideas to fully grasp her personality and mannerism, whereas this time around I didn't have the time to fully find my character. I shall bring what I have learnt from this process as well as the last one on to the next show we do.

When I got given the speech to read out as the queen, I read it though aloud and immediately thought of Professor Umbridge in Harry Potter. I really liked how her mannerism came though in her speech, as well as her physical movements with her hands and facial expressions. Although I had to just say the lines behind the crash matt while Jakko was creating the facial expressions for me I found it rather hard to extract her mannerism, trying to create a happy, light character with a slight dark effect to her attitude. Another reason why I decided to base my Queen character around her is because Ami's Queen was lovely, polite and respected and I wanted to create the same sort of personality but with a slightly darker twist.