Finding Character through Physicality

Our task was to find character through physicality. We were asked to find physicality in the following characters:
- Devil
- Old lady walks like dry old stick
- Drunken Judge
- Beautiful woman with big boobs

To do the devil I kept my head quite low however looked up as if I was really evil and wished death upon someone. My body was quite stern and tense with my fists clenched together as if I was about to hurt somebody. My lips were screwed up like raisins to show that there was anger in my face.

We practised the old lady walking like a dry old stick in lesson. To do this our partners moulded us how they interpret an old lady. In my case my shoulders were hunched over and my pelvis was sticking out. For my facial expressions my eyes were small and I was squinting as if I needed to put on glasses. My character owned a trolly which she had her shopping in as that is stereotypically an old ladies characteristic. We were then asked to pretend that there was money between our bum cheeks so this would help us walk around looking more realistic.


To do the drunken judge we were told to pretend we were asked to walk over an invisible line and try and do it properly however being drunk. This made people walk from left to right and make noises our phrases that proved our characters were actually drunk. Some people were hunched over and others were trying to walk as straight as possible however this ended up in our drunken characters actually walking with our backs too far over the wrong way. We were told to be drunken judges so our character had to be quite posh and classy, so getting onto the other side of the line couldn't result in anybody falling over.

To do the beautiful woman with large boobs I decided to walk with my chest and nose. I decided to walk with my nose so that she would look quite stuck up as if she was saying "I know I'm beautiful." She walked with her entire body straight however having an extremely curved back to enlarge her chest. Her head was tilted up and her eyes were slightly squinted whilst having a smirk/pout on her face to add to the thought of her being more stuck up.



In yesterdays lesson we foccussed on one of these characters (in my case i was the beautiful woman with big boobs) we did different ways they would act when: Leaning against a wall, sitting down, smoking a ciggarette and stomping it out. We then went on to seeing how our characters would react with one another. My character worked with the evil devils and they didnt really get on. My character was then put with the judge where my character loved the judge and the judge loved the attention he was getting however he would get overwhelmed with the attention and need to go to the toilet.