Anthromorphasising

Characteristics from animals
This excercise is also called Animal Study, and It was one of the most effective ways of accsessing a character for me because it gave me the ability to find detail in the charactrer of Hedda which I didn't think of before. The animal I found most similar to Hedda was a snake because she is a very dangerous and highly sneaky character. My physicality when invisioning the snake as hedda became awfully slow and my hips became overly sexualised. 

This excercise was in five parts:
1. Rhythm of life - this includes their pace and speed at which they move, and their movement in general. As a snake this was slow and controlled.
2. Breath - Their breath is vital because it's what drives the animal along and therefore I chose to concentrate a lot on this one. The snake breath was hissy and short. The short shallow breaths allow the anthromorphasised character to feel as though they live like their animal.
3. Spine - The snkae spine was ever changing and moving from side to sid. A snake's spine has hundreds of vertabrae to allow this kind of movement and the slideing that the snake does when its about to creep up to it's prey much like Hedda, her physicality goes very controlled yet slimey and slow when she's leading up to an attak. 
4. Veiw of the world - This is how the animale would see the world and from their point of view. I thouight as a snake their view would be very narrowed and squinted due to it's ability to target 
5. Weight