Already in the phase of material development it can be beneficial for authors and directors to work with a coach, as for example in “My Sisters”by Lars Kraume. Together with leading actresses Jördis Triebel, Nina Kunzendorf and Lisa Hagmeister we used SourceTuning to work on the characters. What Lars Kraume said about the work applied to the actors as well as to the director and the author. By using the imagination of the actors, the authors have the opportunity to tune the roles more precisely to the actors playing them.
Systemic script constellations are another tool in story development that Jens Roth has mastered and that taps into a similarly intuitive and very precise source as SourceTuning. Many years of experience in therapeutic processes with family constellations, the collaboration with Storydocs until 2007, the handling of many strong and weak storylines over his 20 years as coach and his own experiences as director and author have allowed him to develop an instinctive feel for tension and relationships between characters in a story.
Working with a script constellation allows the network of relationships of a story to be felt and experienced almost in 3D via substitutes who do not have to be actors. Authors and directors can communicate directly with their characters. It becomes visible where there are “holes”in the story and where the story has strengths which can be used. Often surprising aspects of the story come to light, which authors can use in the further writing process to make characters more multilayered. Characters can be better understood in their own lives.
