We are now entering into week 4 of our production process, and boy is time flying. As I wrote at the end of my last entry, we have started running the show and really trying to find the full character arcs. As a lot of the actors have commented to me, it's kind of like melding all of these smaller versions of a character together, in moving from this scene by scene sort of existence into a living breathing character. One of the cooler exercises that we did this week is one of my personal favorites entitled interview with a character. I took the guys aside and after giving them the setup, had a one on one conversation with them in character, with incredibly interesting results. The benefit that I find to the exercise, is that as an actor it really forces you to think about your character, really helping to make your character real, while as a director it can clue you in to different nuances in an actor's perception of character that you can use in the process of creating a show. For me, I was able to find out a lot about the backstories that people had set up for themselves, and in rehearsal we were able to choose the moments to really bring those things out. Though that entire exercise was incredibly mentally based, we then switched over to a military simulation exercise to really get these guys to realize the physical strain on these soldiers as well. I think that this improvisation helped them to connect to the situation and hopefully they can keep their sense of urgency and danger when we rejoin the rehearsal process.
Thanks and Love!
Chrich
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