Character breakdown and research

The film I am in is called Finding Rosamund, it is about a Girl (aged seventeen), she has been brought up in an abusive home with her younger sister Rosamund. Rosamund has been missing since she was nine years old, the story revolves around the girl (Nameless Protagonist) going on an emotional journey to track down her sister. The girl is faced with her deteriorating health and mental state along the way, and in the end has to cope with the terrible truth that Rosamund was murdered and is trapped in the spiritual realm in some shape or form.

• My character is the younger sister Rosamund who is nine years old
• her personality is difficult to determine or define, but I have come up with some interpretations of what I believe she is/was like. In the flash backs she is playing and dancing with her sister meaning she is probably bubbly and playful, yet there is most likely an underlying sadness from their abusive home life. She is obviously a caring child as she visits her sister in the film and attempts to soften her sadness.
• In the film Rosamund feels strongly towards her elder sister , this is her strongest connection between characters in the film. I will try to portray this through facial expression and vocal tone.
• In the film her role is to portray how happy her and her sister oncer were in the flash backs, and she is also there as a lost spirit at the end where she visits her sister and lays with her. As this film is highly strong emotionally I am going to use memories of how me and my sister used to play together (when we were younger) to portray their happiness. For the emotions of greif towards the end I will try to act it gently,softly and slighlty mournful, as she is being comforting while hiding her underlying sadness.
• Her emotional state varys throughout the film, during the flash backs she is joyful and bubbly as she is just a child enjoying time with her sister, yet when she is a spirit she is desperate, trapped and lost.
• She is a healthy nine year old child in the flashbacks but when she is a spirit she is anything but, she is pale, bruised and has scars (probably form hert murder). as a spirit she wears angel wings which show her desire to become free and go the heaven.
• She will speak quite emotionally, softly and innocently as she is just a child.
• I believe that she would move energetically in the flashbacks but as a spirit she would be slower and gentler (like the film ghost).
• The tension in the script is at the beginning when the girl can hear the muffled voices of her parents through the walls, also when she steals some food in the middle but gets caught red-handed.
• There isn't really any humour in the script as its an incredibly emotional film.
• My characters turning point is when the audience see her for a spirit for the first time rather than just in flashbacks, this is when the audience will realise that she must be dead. I will act this by changing my characters posture, facial expresion and inner feelings.
• The turning points in the script itself are the girl leaving home, when the girl has a small mental breakdown in the villiage and when she discovers the awful truth about what happened to Rosamund.