The Magic If helps you become a character you have to imagine you are them and think about what you would do if you were them.  

 

In my performance I am an 8 year old boy called Edward Lyons. I need to become the character that is in the performance and take on the role of being him and feel like I actually am an 8 year old boy. I remember when I was a kid and what I was like and I try to put it into practice. This is using the magic if.

 

I think it is hard to play someone if you don’t try to actually be that person. I think it works if you think about what you would do if you were that character. In rehearsals it has been useful in some ways to use the magic if. It has been useful to try and get into the character. It is hard to try and think what I would do as an 8 year old when I am 40. I can do it but it takes a lot more had work. 

 

The forth wall is ‘the space which separates a performer or performance from an audience.’ (Google dictionary)

 

In our performance of blood brothers it is like the audience are not there it is just me and him talking to each other like in real life. We don’t push the audience away but we don’t talk to the audience. So we are using the forth wall by keeping the audience separate from the performers.

 

I think the forth wall works because I can cut out the audience and concentrate on my show better. I think it works when Dan and me use it because it is what Stanislavski would have done. 

 

Dan speaks through the forth wall during the presentation part which I don’t think is a very good idea. I think we should have tried to keep it with the firth wall there with just me and him. I think we could still do a news report but like the audience are watching it from a TV.

 

‘He wanted his actors to actually feel the emotion. So, if a scene called for extreme grief, actors needed to put themselves in the mindset of the character's situation so that they genuinely experience the feelings of intense sadness. (The same goes for all the other emotions.)’ (www.thoughtco.com)

 

In the bit we perform from blood brothers we are getting to know each other and trying to become friends and find out things about each other. The emotion I think my character feels is excitement because they are talking to each other and finding out about each other. Edward will be polite and friendly so this is what I need to do. I try and feel the emotion of excitement and happy when I get to know him. I think about things that are good that have happened in my life to get me to show this. 

 

I think when you think about things that have happened to you it helps with your emotions. It helps because if you think of happy or sad things from in the past it brings back the memories and makes you feel happy or sad. It makes the character come alive because you are that character once you have got the emotions. 

 

 

If we had done dress I would like us to of worn some childrens style clothes to make it more realistic because this is what Stanislavski would have done. For my character I think he would have worn some smart clothes and for Dans character would wear t-shirt and shorts, just normal kids stuff.

 

For lighting I would want some coloured lights and maybe some spotlights on us when we were making friends. We also would be good if we had lights on Dan in th news room then light on me at Stanislavski studios. 

 

We had a presentation with slides but Dan changed this at the last minute which I was not happy about. I was furious that I had done all that work on the presentation for nothing. I think my grade would be better if the research was there.