Acting Tips for Character Development & Growth

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The last thing that you need to look at when you're developing a character is what we call polar attitudes. And the polar attitudes of a character is basically, where did they start the play, and where do they finish the play? And, you want to do this last, because you want to take a look at the all these elements, all these things that we've talked about, establish who this character is. They're sad, they're angry, they're lonely. How do they end the play? Are they sad, and angry, and lonely? Then they have not had a change. They have no polar attitude. About half your characters will have a change; therefore, their polar attitudes will change. They started the play, or the movie, broken and downhearted, and without anything, on their last leg, and they end up rich, or getting the girl, or getting the job that they want. It's a happy ending kind of thing. So you have to take a look at those polar attitudes, so you can determine how you're going to play the character all the way through. The character will have an arc. They go to a certain point, and then they come to that ending. Some will change, some will not, but it's just like knowing the ending of a book, or the ending of a script, or the ending of a speech, you have to know where it is you're trying to get.

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