My Character Comparison

I have been focusing specifically on my character. This has meant looking up videos online of people that i feel will reflect nicely in my character and be a good comparison. I have been looking in more detail at many aspects of my character. From Manorisms to facial expressions and speech. I have looked at many characters that have an overpowering personality, who are very 'in your face' and have very over the top manorisms and expressions. I came to the conclusion that comedian Michael Mcintyre was a perfect comparison. The way he moves around the stage in a OTT way and many of his jokes come with impressions in movement. He speaks rather quickly and his personality shows through on stage. I looked closely at the way in which he moves and saw that his expression is shown through mostly in his arms, and when he speaks he also tends to talk with his hands. I thought that this would be a nice manorism for my character to have as when he speaks, he tends to speak directly to others and can be seen as very 'crazy' and at times this can get too much for characters in the play for example Ralph. The way that Michael speaks is very over exaggerated. He tends to say things differently to really emphasise parts of his speech for example the punch lines of his jokes and at times he can laugh at himself for what he is saying. Within the Play this is similar to my character as when we first see him, he is making jokes about not breeding a society of clones and there being a time when you could tell between the two sexes. I felt that this is a good comparison for my character because of the fact he finds himself funny, and at times others are almost forced to laugh along, much like Ralph who laughs sarcastically and Lucinda likes Alan as he is friendly from the start towards her and is getting her the child that she longs for.