Finding My character

An article by Paul Brachhi i read highlighted the rise of violent girl gangs and after the scenes i had taken part in playing a violent character who had manly characteristics, i decided to develop the idea of unconventional women.

The most recent police estimate put the number of gangs in london as 174 of which at least three were exclusivly girls.

These articles gave me an insight into what my character could be involved in but did not help me in building her character as i wanted to go deeper into why someone would chose to act so destructive, so i built a character and was hotseated and asked random questions, her physicality was easier for me to imagine after weeks of observing different types of people and desructive groups of school girls, who were by no means as malicous as gang members but carried out the same charecteristics in terms of acting a certain way to be accepted, pulling cruel pranks on people and just generally conforming to one another.

In order for the audience to realate with my character and actualy be able to connect with her i needed to understand why someone acted like that and not just be some cold blooded un true character. I spent time researching girl gangs, i analysed people, i looked at statistics to how children from broken homes or alcoholic backgrounds were more likely to commit crime and how westernised women acted opposed to people from different countries, was it a cultural thing i questionned is this what britains mass industry does to people, and how are the social norms different from here to different places?