Character Exercises: Walking home in character

I walked home in character. My character was Tom from my monologue which I'm doing and which is from the play "Fat Pig". He works in Canary Wharf so he is business type of person who wears a suit and has a brief case all the time and would usually ride a barclays bike everywhere but because I had to walk in character I imagined a business man walking which I still see sometimes.



They walk like they have purpose and know exactly where there going and feel confident because they are always in suits and just look like important people so I tried doing that, but at the same time I imagine business men to walk different in different places like in a place like Leyton I don't think  business men would walk with such a high status as its not really a place to want to be noticed but in the city where it is more populated and important he would want to be known as important and also central London is a place where he would feel more at home and he would be used to that area.

My character Tom is a shy sort of person and is not very confident at all so in a situation where he would be walking in Leyton he would feel awkward and not himself and feel very reserved and in a rush to just get to where ever he is going to.

So I walked as if I was carrying a brief case and I was trying not to get to much attention as I would have been wearing a suit and so I was looking down and awkwardly walking with wide fast paces. I didnt imagine this walk to be his daily walk to work though as I said what his walk would normaly be like but I imagined him to be going to visit a reletive after work that lives in the area of Leyton. It was hard doing this character exercise as it dosent feel natural to me but I guess thats the whole point but also I got so into what I was doing with my body I didnt see the road and nearly got hit by a car twice.

Character exersize: spying on people

In this character exersize we were on the streets of Leyton, looking at different people and seeing the little habits that people do and how they carry themselves and what stuck out with different people. Hopefully helping us collect a bank of different kind of walks in our head that we can relate to different characters.

I went outside Leytonstone station because thats where alot of different kind of people are because everyone takes the bus or the train, exept being here, everyone was rushing so we couldnt see what people were like calmly exept there were a couple of calmy walking people but most of them we in a hurry.
<<<This is where we sat




<<<This is where we saw.

These ar our results

-Midlle age lady with bad leg.
she was the kind of person who we could relate to maybe a creepy tramp or witch as she was walking with a limp

-Young adult ginger model looking.
She looked like Amy Pond from doctor who. She could relate to a bitchy popular high school student/ cheerleader type person.

-2 builders. Walks heavily, heavy steps.
They looked like the clumsy type of people and reminded me of the mechanicals in midsummers nights dream.

-Old woman. Walks with no purpose. Walks slowly (lost)
She looked like she might of been a bit high or crazy, so i think a character like a crazy cat woman would be like her.

-Young man walks with hands in his pockets, walks with criss crossy legs, fast looking down.
He looks like the kind of person who is shy and just trying to get to where ever he is without any trouble. He is the kind of charactre like a nerdy shy quite boy who has just finished school