creating my character

the blank canvas

Emotions:

Simon ran a task with us when we had to go from a neutral stance/walk to many different but common emotions, we then had to exaggerate some of these emotions making 'sadness' overly depressed and 'excitement' bordering on 'hyper'.

looking at my lines to see what information I could find about my character:

we worked with Ben on our characters physically and physicalizing each character so that everyone looks and sounds different. This meant that we could really get our characters on their feet and start to see how their personality and language affected how they walk and stand and react with other characters. My character thinks she is better and above all of the rest therefore meaning that she walks very upright, she holds her head high and is not shy in saying what she thinks although she is different from Amber or Tashan's characters who are totally in another world and just blurt out random comments like 'I saw a film once were a girl had a piercing in her fanny' whenever they feel like it.
What makes my character the "posh totty" type:

• mum is local councillor
• invited to everything
• part of the St Helens group
• she knows about school rules, wifi and mobile phone networks unlike her fellow friends who are clueless of such intelligence!

researching into my type of character
st trynians film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1xuCXABVc

posh totty character
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mez8-VMj16E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtm5oamEALo

By watching these videos I was able to really see how I would play my character if I had to play just the stereotype like the "Posh Totty's" are in St Trinians, although my character is obviously an advanced version of these characters as she has a lot of other personal traits and qualities  which will be added into the characterisation of my character it is still interesting to see how the actors in St Trinians play such snobbish characters.

I really enjoyed playing my character and creating her into the snobby head girl prefect type who sometimes spoke before she thought 'its as I imagined...' and I think the following picture sums my character up: