Rent (Friday 18th september) Characters and Role on the wall

In this lesson we got our characters for the show, I got the character of Mark, which was who I was auditioning for. I was very happy with this as out of all of the male characters in the show I saw the most potential for my self to add characterisation and get into the characters feelings.

We had a lesson just focusing on our own characters, we did this in the form of a role on the wall, and we did this while watching a schools edition of Rent, which is what version we would be doing. During this I came up with a lot of facts about my character, some that I knew from the show and a from watching the films and then some that I have made up to give my character depth in the scenes.

My Role on the wall explanation

HIV and AIDs


During the context of our piece, it is during the aids and HIV epidemic, and a lot of the characters are carriers, The difference between HIV and AIDS is that HIV is a virus that attacks your immune system, which weakens it down, until your body is unable to defend its self against the virus. Over time medication has been brought out not to stop the illness but to delay its effects of it. From HIV you can lead to AID's, you cant get AIDs without having HIV first but you can suffer from HIV without it leading to AIDs


Main Causes of Homelessness


Homelessness can come from lots of different causes, but the main two categories for  the cause of homelessness is Personal and Structural. Personal reasons can include things that our down to yourself, this is things like not getting enough qualifications when you were in education, not having the right social skills etc. Structural causes of homelessness is more general. such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, or not available to get benefits


'Starving Artist'

A Starving artist is someone who gives all that they can to achieve their dreams in the arts, this can mean that they are living of a minimum wage, and have to keep their spending to a minimum, in order to fund their art.