Individual Post - Brittany Measor;

In today's lesson we decided to split off into two sections within our group; myself and Danny were together because we felt as though we needed to work on the characterisation of our set characters. Due to the fact we both stick to the same character throughout, this characterisation needs to be strong and ensure that our intentions are portrayed to the audience effectively. To do so we decided to brainstorm ideas of scenes, that will introduce our characters and the reasoning for our choices throughout our piece, clearly to the audience. From this we came up with two ideas; one being a scene to show the main reason as to why Horatio wanted to lose his identity and another showing this reason slowly impacting Sophie's life throughout the first few stages of transformation.

The first idea that we brainstormed together consisted of the following notes in the following order;
- Horatio is walking down the street and brushes past a male, who calls his name and stands in his way so he is unable to move.
- The male is in fact his landlord and this is introduced through dialogue.
- His landlord stops Horatio due to not paying his rent for the second month in the row.
- Horatio ignores the landlord and tries to escape the situation.
- Although, he gets enclosed in by several people - effectively showing how much he wants to escape not just only that moment but his life as a whole.
- Physical theatre is key and essential throughout his scene.

The second idea that we brainstormed together consisted of the following notes in the following order;
- Split staging to be used; one half of the stage is Horatio sat on a plain black block, second half of stage is Sophie sat on a block, covered in a blanket, with a side table with tea and the telephone. Each side of the stage will be lit up when dialogue is spoken.
- Sophies phone rings and she calls to answer and eventually discovers its what she thinks is her landlord but is Horatio's. This begins to show a stage of the transformation.
- Physical theatre will be used to show the phone line by the other characters within the scene.
- We will phsyically show the small elements of the transformation through movement. Horatio and Sophie do the same thing at the same time occasionally to clearly identify the change to the audience.

I feel as though the two scenes that we came up with will help the audience establish the reasoning for the characters choices throughout the narrative. I believe it makes it clearer to the audience the reasons as to why Horatio wants to get rid of his identity in the first place and also the minor, although, important stages of the transformation and how Sophie is oblivious to the happenings around her, which also ensures sympathy is created for her character.

By Brittany Measor.