Character Reflection

Today in class, we did acting exercises and put ourselves in the shoes of our characters. The first few exercises were used to loosen up and to let go of all our inhibitions. I really enjoyed these first exercises, because we were able to be fun and crazy. The next exercises we did were with our characters. We pretended that we were the characters from our stories. One of the exercises included posing like one of the characters from your story. Then, we did two more exercises where we first introduced our characters to the class as the character and then acted out a scene from the rising action of the story. My partner and I weren't able to go, but before we had begun the second exercise we had time to discuss what we wanted to act out. From this, we received a better idea of what our characters would actually seem like in real life.
These exercises really helped me understand the characters for my story better. One of the main characters, Abe, lacked depth and because of these exercises I was able to realize that. My partner and I decided that it would be beneficial to his character to give him more of and edge and change his views on the time Hitler ruled. I believe that by changing his character it will make the story have more excitement and entice the reader. Overall, today was extremely beneficial for me and the characters in my developing story. Everyone also got a good laugh from the exercises which made the whole experience more enjoyable.