31st October 2003
Drama Essay
Character development
My first project in drama was to create a character in a family that was part of a soap opera. By the end of the project we had filmed a short film of the family, which was very successful. Each member of the family had their own individual character and background.
In the first few lessons we did work on developing both the final character and characterisation in general. To start with we took a random item from are bags. This could have been anything from a pencil to a water bottle. Using this item we decided who would have the item and words to describe this item. Without knowing it you had come up with a character. This method is very effective for deciding basic details about your character. After this initial exercise we had time to decide finally what are character would be. When I had done so I created a character biography. My biography set up a background for my character, her name, what she wanted in life etc. Doing this helped me develop the character as I knew more about her and was clear with how she would behave. Doing this meant that I could start the project knowing exactly how I would play the character.