Semester Exam: Given Circumstances

Name:______________________________

GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES WORKSHEET

Play:____________________________________

Character:____________________________________

BE SPECIFIC.  ONE WORD AND ONE SENTENCE ANSWERS ARE UNACCEPTABLE.

1. What do I know about my character?: (Name, Age, Family Unit, Social Class)

2. Where am I? (America, Canada, City, Small Town)

3. What is my specific location? (House, playground, Department Store)

4. What year is it? Is the year significant?

5. What relationships do I have? (Describe them)

6. Who are you talking to?  What is your relationship to that character?

7. What do you want?

8. Why do you want it?

9. How will you get it?

10. Why do you want it now?

11. What will happen if you don’t get it?

12. What will happen if you don’t get it now?

13. What is in your way?

14. What must you overcome?

Creating Believable Characters: SUMMATIVE

 CREATING BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS

DIRECTIONS:  Use this character analysis sheet to create believable characteristics for the character in your monologue.  You will have to create the information based on what you do know about the character.  Be specific!  Please write in full sentences as much as possible.

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1.  Name

2.  Birthdate

3.  Birthplace

4.  Age

5.  Family status

6.  Education

7.  Economic status: growing up and now

8.  Where do they live:  city, apartment/house, etc.

9.  Occupation

10.  Physical Appearance:  how different from your own (actor)

PERSONALITY:

1.  5 adjectives to describe personality

2.  Hobbies

3.  3 goals in life

4.  Strengths/Weaknesses

5.  Major influences in their life: past and present

6.  Clothing Style

7.  Major relationships in life

8.  What is the relationship to the “other person”/Silent Partner in the monologue?

 9. How do you feel about this person (past and present)?

EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

1.  Usual positive/negative emotions

2.  How does character normally react to tense, happy, sad, etc. situations?

3.  States of emotion in monologue: beginning, middle, end

4.  Mental state of mind

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:

1.  Habitual gestures/facial expressions

2.  Posture (how do they stand) and movement (how do they walk)

3.  Vocal characteristics (talk fast/slow, high/low, nasally?, etc.)

4.  Health

5.  How will you physicalize your emotions as this character?