Rhythm Tempo
For Lucy I had to design two different rhythms and tempos: Vampire-Lucy rhythm-tempo, and Regular-Lucy rhythm-tempo. I shall detail the two separately.
Vampire Lucy
Vampire Lucy's tempo is slow. I like to imagine a big cat when I do her, like a tiger or a panther. Slow, seductive, deadly. It's actually a trick I use when trying to embody that sexiness is visualizing a tail stretching out from my coccyx. I imagine it moving as I move, I spent hours watching the cat that lives next door to me walking around and working out how it moves with it's tail. It's all in the spine. But the thing with Vampire Lucy is that her slow, measured tempo is deadly because in a flash she can be faster than light. Her rhythm is similar...slow and measured but unpredictable.
Regular Lucy
Regular Lucy was something I had fun building up contrast with. I had already made loads of decisions on Vampire Lucy's physicality, tempo, vocal tones and inflection and such the like, so this version of Lucy was more for contrast. I really wanted to be able to show the huge snap between the two woman, highlighting the change that Dracula induces. So all of my choices in terms of Tempo-Rhythm with Regular Lucy were made so as to highlight and contrast the choices I made for Vampire Lucy. Whilst V.L. is very slow and measures, R.L. is light and childish. I wanted her voice to have a quality much like I one I imagines Lolita having in Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name. Childish and lovely however somehow I wanted there to be a sharpness and an ordinariness in there. I will write a blog analyzing this comparison presently.
Regular Lucy is impatient and fast paced, she dances everywhere she goes on tiptoes and has a quality like a bird, flitting around the room but not in a panicked way. This is lovely to play, especially in contrast to the Vampire Lucy. I find it so interesting that I've chosen to have a bird and a cat as my examples for tempo-rhythm characteristics. Predator and Prey.
Regular Lucy
Regular Lucy was something I had fun building up contrast with. I had already made loads of decisions on Vampire Lucy's physicality, tempo, vocal tones and inflection and such the like, so this version of Lucy was more for contrast. I really wanted to be able to show the huge snap between the two woman, highlighting the change that Dracula induces. So all of my choices in terms of Tempo-Rhythm with Regular Lucy were made so as to highlight and contrast the choices I made for Vampire Lucy. Whilst V.L. is very slow and measures, R.L. is light and childish. I wanted her voice to have a quality much like I one I imagines Lolita having in Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name. Childish and lovely however somehow I wanted there to be a sharpness and an ordinariness in there. I will write a blog analyzing this comparison presently.
Regular Lucy is impatient and fast paced, she dances everywhere she goes on tiptoes and has a quality like a bird, flitting around the room but not in a panicked way. This is lovely to play, especially in contrast to the Vampire Lucy. I find it so interesting that I've chosen to have a bird and a cat as my examples for tempo-rhythm characteristics. Predator and Prey.
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