Sub text and my character

In the past few lessons the group and I have looked at what each others characters are like and how they are with other people. For this we made spider diagrams for each character and what they think about other characters in the play. Here's the ones we made on the 25th February:

As you can see from the first two, each character has their own colour so that there's no confusion about who thinks what about a certain character. The diagram below is the one made for William which took the most time as he has so much going on in his head it's very hard to tell what he actually thinks of some people.

Creating these helped me personally as I now knew how I'd interact with each person during the play. Not only was it helpful to find out how each person see's you and how you see them but how it then changes what and how you do things. For example before creating these character mind maps I always felt like Chadwick didn't deserve to be at the private school as he was there on a scholarship and therefore he didn't have the money to be able to afford a decent education. But now that I've seen what he thinks of Nicholas (my character) I now feel that me and Chadwick have a close connection as in a way we're both similar characters as we just want an easy life and to get through school without any trouble.

Leading on from this lesson, today we ran through scene's and clapped as our character thought something; we'd then say what we thought out load. This was an exercise used for sub text and helped each person out in the scene as everyone then knew what that person was thinking. It also helped me personally connect to my character as I started thinking like Nicholas Chatman would. Below is the video of this exercise: