17th January 2013

Today we built on work that we had done on Tuesday. We devised a short scene which had very stereotypical characters.

I played Chantelle the stereotypical bitch. To show that I was playing that character while I wasn't talking I did some miming, this is a divising technique, I mimied that I was doing my hair and reading a magizine. I did this because most stereotypical bitches care about there appearance and always want to look perfect.I also changed my tone of voice, to a more threatening tone.
I made fun of James who played Richard and Shannon who played Shannon.

After that we were given a sheet that had a verity of different divising techniques. We had to pick 1 to focus on and add it into the scene.  We decided to add Docudrama and mime. We chose docudrama because it let each character say a bit more about themselves. We also chose mime, this is because while Jack was interviewing the other characters we would mime something our character would do.

Jack, interviewed each character.While he interviewed the other characters I filed my nails, read a magazine and did my hair. These were all things you would as a stereotypical bitch would do.
When he got to my character my character was sorting out her hair and make-up so she looked perfect on camera  During this exercise I decided that my character would be very over confident and talkative. I showed this by telling the audience a lot about my character, however they were all this they didn't really need to know. When asked what I thought about my class mates. my character individually picked on each character, this showed  the audience that my character was not this really happy, bubbly person on this inside she was really mean.

After that exercise we were given song lyrics, to us a stumilui. The song we were given was Family Portrait by Pink, this song is about a family who are going though a bad time. My group thought that this song worked best with my character, as it would explain a lot about why my character is the way she is.

At the start of our piece we had Chantelle and her friend picking on this girl who was looking at them. Then the scene changed, Chantelle was at home and her mum and dad were in the background fighting. While they were fighting I read a specific lyrics in the song that related to the action that was happening with her family. This was affective because you could how my character home life was. It was also very powerful, because the lyrics fit well and the seeing the mum and the dad fight silently behind was very moving.