Developing characters

Description: this week we've been focusing a lot on the one act play, but mostly we've been focusing on developing our characters, as this play is for us to develop characters and to improve our acting skills.

Analysis: This week, we've been working on our characters, we've done some exercises that really helped to build our characters, as we basically had nothing. We follow some steps:

1. We started in A position for while, to concentrate in our respiration.
2. After some time we would stand up and find our center, were everything would go from there, every step had to go from the center.
3. then we had to imagine as we were walking but the world was upside down and we were in a building walking towards the floor, so we had to walk really slow, because otherwise you could fall

we spent a whole lesson doing this, just find our center of power, and how to work towards there, but afterwards, we would start walking like our characters, and we had to find a center for our own characters, the part of your body where the energy comes from. So after finding our center, we could move like our characters, and this helped a lot, as we find how our characters would move, and the actions it would do.

Also apart from finding our characters, we spent the week doing our scenes, we did a lot, (in my opinion) as we had a lots of things we improved. Also we find new actions to do while acting and that made the play more interesting to see and more dynamic. I think we are improving a lot our one act play, even though there is still a lot to do

Connections: regarding the dynamic part of the one act play, it reminded me of a play we once read in class, just before we began the one act play, that it is call: "Us and them" that was very dynamic, that had very short dialogues, and just the reading was very interesting, our play is turning like that, with no long boring silence pauses, but still there is a lot to work on, in order to be a good play. On the other hand talking about the characters, and developing it, the exercises we did in class, helped me A LOT, to find my character, I didn't even knew how my character was, I didn't had a vision for my character, which now I do, I know how she moves, talks, and her little movements that makes my character unique.

Reflexion: Even though we cant take too much time in preparing our characters before rehearsing, I think that this is essential in order for us to be mentally and physically prepared to act good, so how can it be another way to prepare but in a short time?, is it just practice?, do I just need to get used to my character so I can act like her more easily?