Sheriffs Deputy.

Thoughts:

Although he had very few lines, my favourite character has to be was the Sheriffs deputy. I liked being him because he is completely different to anyone I have ever acted before. In the past Ive been shy a weak character who cant cope with a situation, a comedic Grandma, (Who I applied a lot of features from to Grampa) A leader of an organisation and a character from Blood Brothers, all of which have the theme that there is someone above them in some way. Whereas the Sheriffs deputy was the highest authority and I really wanted to make this come through by using sarcastic tones and aggression. 

Inspiration:

While we have been working on this piece Ive been following a particular actor very closely. In my personal opinion I think the actor David Morrisey is one that I can get a lot of inspiration from. Here is a small bit of background info about him.

Born	David Mark Morrissey 21 June 1964 (age 49) Kensington, Liverpool, England
Occupation	Actor, director, producer,screenwriter
Years active	1982–present

David Morrisey has been in many theatre productions, including pieces by Shakespeare. In television he has appeared in a Doctor Who Christmas special and was a main cast member of the Walking Dead for two seasons. 

Out of all the characters Morrisey has been I got a lot of inspiration from his character "The Governor".

The Governor is an extremely complicated man with many secrets, identities and bad ways. However amongst all of this he remains a leader. Its these secrets which bring out the sly nature he acts in, he is a character who truly uses the situation he is in to his advantage, and makes life a misery for everyone else. I can apply this to my character because he to work in corruption with the contractor. When I walk round Floyd and say "Hmmm" I took the slow approach this because of the threatening nature which David Morrisey applied to his character, the Governor.

The Scene:

1)Here I am acting the corrupt Sheriff, I walk slowly round him in threatening manor to abuse my authority and then report back to CJ. I take sides with Cj here, making bad alliances being very negative, an example of one of the many issues the Joads run into on the way. The Sheriff make fake accusations about Floyd a persists to call him hayseed, a term to insult people of his area. I enjoyed this interaction loads, it was great to be a dominant character who was almost a little brat really. I feel that I attempted to show my character as one who was a real power hungry man well. 

2)We then go on to slow motion, the Joads finally have a successful victory against someone, again my character was abusing his status. Tom brings him right to the floor in slow motion, Casy kicks me and then things resume. At first I didn't like this at all! Ive never really done slow motion is such an interactional way using stage combat. However now Ive tried it I think its getting better! If we had more time I would have liked to work on adjusting a few more parts of this scene, just to show of my characters evil side a little more.

Writing in Role:

"What people dont understand that this here is my part the country, some of us are leaders and others, well they just aint so lucky. Things are what they are and it aint my job to change 'em. Myself? Why, Im as fairer man as you can get"

I wrote this monologue for the soul purpose of its length, short but sweet. It involves the controversial attitude he has for someone who we would expect to be there for others. I could imagine that this would probably happen between the characters of the Sherifs deputy and the contractor.