Warm Up

Throughout this whole process I have found that the majority of my scenes have been the ones that could be the most challenging to keep the audience engaged because of the complex, legal language. These scenes are ones full of debate and the characters are holding heavy decisions in their words, as a result of this I have found that the energy in these scenes have to be pushed even further for the audiences to want to be engaged in the characters and the story that they are telling. However in the rehearsal process myself and the others who are acting in these scenes have found it hard to bring the words and language to life to make them interesting and engaging the audience. I think one of the problems that we have found it hard to overcome was listening to each other and understanding the importance of what we are saying. I think that this could bring the life of the words out of the page and if we as actors believe in the importance of the words I think that it will make the audiences want to listen and to believe in the importance of the decisions that the characters are making as well.

In one our sessions we had a really effective and useful warm up that I felt personally and as a company really helped to bring the scene to life. In this warm up we looked at exaggerating our characters to the extreme, in their voices and physicality and characterisation, and pushing it and us in our decisions that we have made for our characters. I felt that it made my subtle character choice a lot clearer to me and bringing really brought out the personalities of them. In my characterisation I felt that this exercise brought a new energy to my character and that it brought a real life to him. We then ran our first scene and for the first time it felt alive and that the characters had a real energy within them and this drove the scene.