Single - Contemporary Theatre Unit (FSN) - Blog 8 - 06/10/15

Today we continued with the first scene of Act 1. We focused a lot on status of our characters and what we and our characters thought of our characters and each others characters. We stood in order of status for what we thought of our characters and what our characters thought. I rated my character, Star, nearer to the bottom as he tries to be heard but he's often ignored. Contrastingly, I felt that Star would rate himself rather high as he feels he is very smart and knows a lot more the regular 7 year old which he feels gives him more dominance in the class. 

After this exercise, we had to describe our character in two words in the role of our characters. The two words I felt that Star would choose for himself would be, "Smart" as he knows a lot about his Uncle's job and, "Cool" as Star feels that he should be looked up to as a core if knowledge.

The next exercise we did involved our characters judgement on their classmates. We all had a piece of paper with our characters name written on the top and we all went to every piece of paper and we wrote two words which our character would use to describe them. A selection of words Star reviewed were Geek, Weird and Odd. These exercises aided us in understanding our characters and their statuses.
(My original sheet used for this exercise is pictured to the right.)

For the rest of the lesson we went through the rest of scene one of Act 1.