We were put into a group of three, and there were two main characters Des and Lionel and the third actor was sat in the middle of the stage on a chair blindfolded, while the main two characters acted out their duologue. We gathered that the character Des was the more strong-willed character who took charge and the characteristics of Des followed after the character Derek Trotter in Only fools and horses. However Lionel was more of a pushover, and really wanted to impress Des. In my opinion if Des approved of Lionel he would feel that he has reached upto Des's standards. When I thought of Lionel, an image and character of Neil from The Inbetweeners came into mind.
I played the character of Des, and Bradley played the character of Lionel, Bradley thought having a confused expression helped portray his characters mind wheras I used a more rough tone and more serious matter of body language. Once we performed it we were given feedback such as;
- Good facial expressions and tones in voices
- Sense of humour but then serious brought back when the swearing came into context
- Need to build a more higher climax when the argumentive Des has a go at Lionel for swapping swear words.
This lesson helped me, giving me a better udnerstanding of script work and how to read characters profiles in between the lines. Imagination played a big part as well.
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