A day in the life of

I found the exercise "A day in the life" very interesting. As we did this exercise at the beginning of the process of our play, I was not confident with the plot of the play or any of the characters, including mine, so I found I was a little lost.

By the end of it, I learnt much more. My character is a Second Lieutenant officer, a low rank within the colony, so I figured he might be engaging in day-to-day corporate activities like desk work and prioritising appearance and patrolling the area. Knowing the nature and relationship between the guards and convicts, I think he might also spend some time annoying and terrorising the convicts. It was beneficial speaking to the actors who play a character similar to mine as we could exchange knowledge and I got some ideas off of them, and this added to my research.