Women in the Factory (wed 8th April)

Today we worked further on cleaning and improving the prologue section of the play. This includes the opening section when we are women in the factory. Working on this made me think further about who this women is, what she's like and how she acts. To help me with this i have made a character profile :

Character Profile, Women in Factory. 

Age : 21

Status : Recently married to a man just before he left for war, he is still alive. No children.

Attitude to work: Very cheerful, gets distracted easily at work and can be clumsy.

Personality: Friendly, gets on with everyone, ditzy, can be quite nosey.

Her feelings when she gives the telegram: Anxious to see what it says, relieved that its not for her, sympathetic for the other girl.

Having this profile allows me to develop the character further and think about how she will be in the scene, it also allows me to have a basis to work from in creating her physicality and gestures. As well as this i also looked at what their surroundings may be like in order to aid me in this section in visualising where we are and what everyday life is like for these women.

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/women-making-munitions/

Theses images & video show the sort of tasks women were undertaking in the factory which is useful for the opening section where we are replicating these within our own factory. Seeing the pace they worked at and tools they used in the video means i can now make my movements more accurate to what they would have actually been like within the factory.