In today’s session we started off by recapping the different levels of status and tension just to warm us up this was good as it let us see what we had remembered from the week before. We then as a class discussed the improv extract we had been given to read, In the extract I had found one part in particular very interesting… At one point he stated that ‘One person will be convinced that they are coming across as one thing but in reality, they are coming across as the other’ this is good as it shows us that drama is down to perception and that is why characterisation is so important as this allows the director and playwright to give the audience the show that they want. To improve my understanding on this I could read the whole book, my target is to check the LRC for a copy and then read it.
We then looked at stock characters, by this I mean Architypes and stereotypes, these are the foundations for all characters in tv and theatre, this exercise was good as again it built up on our characterisation. My target is to research the stock characters.
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