I started this process by reading the script of the full play so that I could get a stronger understanding of my characters desires, needs, behaviours, emotions and overall personality. It also gave me a wider understanding of the intentions behind the scene that I’m working on. By doing this, I could interpret how my character is feeling and behaving in my scene. It also allows me a wider understanding of my characters relationships with other people and how they behave when meeting and interacting with new people.

I also took time to research loss of a parent in your teenage. Psychosis and how they can interlink based off my research I believe that my character is suffering from psychosis which is what is causing him to believe that he is a vampire and why he is so adamant that he is when people tell him that he is not. Understanding this information makes the character less of a strange idea to play with and more of a broken young adult he was in desperate need of help but is unable to ask for it. For this scene specifically it’s shown how important this is as he finds it difficult to make friends and when he finds someone who is as extravagant as him he feels comfortable with them which is likely because he doesn’t have many friends.

When working on our scene study project, we were instructed to read through the script get up and improvise what we have just read through. I found this really helped with learning my lines. As I had learned  all my lines within the third week of this process. The repetitiveness of reading the lines through and then getting up straight into performing allowed the lines to become less important which in-turn made them easier to learn. However, this technique made me feel incredibly disconnected from the scene. Making things up on the spot for me feels unproductive and can cause stress where stress isn’t needed. This made the rehearsal process more challenging for me as I felt I wasn’t sure of what I was doing each time we ran it even though I had kept tabs and notes on what we were supposed to be doing. Overall, I found this technique to be something useful for the very beginning of a rehearsal process. As it helps me understand how to start creating a scene. Nevertheless I didn’t find it to be something I would use throughout an entire rehearsal process. As it went on it felt like I wasn’t working as well as I could have been if I had been using different techniques.

Another technique I tried to implement into the rehearsal process was Meissner technique. In this technique you have to focus on the importance of what’s being said to you not by the words but by the emotions driving the words this is similar to the last technique as the last technique didn’t require you to focus on the words, however, I find the attention should be on the emotion rather than on the actions something I could work with easier.

My process has changed a lot since the beginning of this project. Now I would start with reading the script before hand to make sure I know what the context is. I then would make a start on learning the lines to give me a base to work around. I have found I work better putting the work into practice rather than theorising what I could do so I would then start getting the scene on its feet and improving the work, this will help me with the lines as well as blocking and working on my characterisation. I would then continue to play around with my character and scene until it gets to a positive place where I can make small but important changes.