So we tried improvisation, but it felt like improvisation, and it looked like improvisation too. Then I used my interviewer background. I'd have a little video camera, and I started interviewing them in character. We kind of came to it through that. That was a big moment for me because then I realized that I shouldn't tell them not to act.
Every character ends up having a different strategy.
There's Jack who is supposedly the pacifist and tries to ignore the camera. There's Dawn who uses the camera to humiliate her mother and get even with her sister. There's the nurse who justifies all her actions to the camera, confesses to the camera. It's true, because she is kind of like the witness to it all. But she is really passive aggressive.