Tuesdays lesson was very simple indeed.
We focused on our script reading and contrast in characters.
On the first session of our 2 hours, we did some excersises.
Such as 'The Sunshines On' & 'Cat and Mouse' and a new excersise which was in an old programme, i forgot the specific name.
It consisted of the group standing in a circle, and one person would do a funny walk, action, or walk and funny face, into the centre, choose a person and look into their eyes and do the same walk to that person and stand in their place while that person does there own thing and so on. This helped us understand creativity in creating a character with contrast and exaggeration, also facial expressions by using an excersise which included all 3 of those skills in practise.
In the second hour we did practising of our scripts, however we got to choose our own scripts from a choice of books. Me and Georgee chose 40 Short plays, and we were going to choose 'Fate' however, we had a new memeber to our group, Shakelun, and we changed our play to 'Class' and this was about 3 ladies on a bench talking about the definition of 'Class' and different manners of it. We decided on this because of the topic and the structure of the script.
Some performed close to the end and we discussed how they contrasted their characters and how well they succeeded, they contrasted well as they worked together in their gorups. Redzy's group succeeded and so did Tia's group because they showed individual work and worked well in their chosen groups.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Tuesday 22ND March 2011
On Tuesdays lesson, we had a visitor in, her name was Amy.
She took our 2 hour sessions and did a few excersises with us which helped us alot.
At the start of the first session, she got us to stand in a space, arms space apart and did a few stretches with us which involved co-ordination and balance. They prevented us from injury and vocal injury. For example, stretching really tall, then making ourselves really small. Also using facial expressions to warm the muscles up in our face. We did excersises which involved getting on the floor and do a strengthening excersise.
In the second session we did a fun excersise which made me feel very embarrassed however it was good to excersise our vocal skills. Talking gibberish. We had to create a conversation on any subject using gibberish language. A few performed and we went through each one a few times because Amy helped us perfect our vocal projection because if we were practising in that tone + pitch everyday, we would hurt our vocal cords.
We used a technique where we pretended to 'yawn' and then say the speech. This projects the voice more without hurting our vocal cords. This helped us within our vocal practising and understanding of characters, it helped the understanding of the characters the way they project their speech and the way they talk in their peformance.
She took our 2 hour sessions and did a few excersises with us which helped us alot.
At the start of the first session, she got us to stand in a space, arms space apart and did a few stretches with us which involved co-ordination and balance. They prevented us from injury and vocal injury. For example, stretching really tall, then making ourselves really small. Also using facial expressions to warm the muscles up in our face. We did excersises which involved getting on the floor and do a strengthening excersise.
In the second session we did a fun excersise which made me feel very embarrassed however it was good to excersise our vocal skills. Talking gibberish. We had to create a conversation on any subject using gibberish language. A few performed and we went through each one a few times because Amy helped us perfect our vocal projection because if we were practising in that tone + pitch everyday, we would hurt our vocal cords.
We used a technique where we pretended to 'yawn' and then say the speech. This projects the voice more without hurting our vocal cords. This helped us within our vocal practising and understanding of characters, it helped the understanding of the characters the way they project their speech and the way they talk in their peformance.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Tuesday 1ST March Vocal And Movement!!
In today's lesson, elaborated in a thing called 'Given Circumstances'. The learning objectives were 'To establish what your characters 'Given Circumstances' are' and 'To learn what a super objective is and how this applies to the motivation of a character' and also 'To be able to show the super objective of your character in a short sentence'.
In the first session, we learnt that a characters 'Super Objective' is something that their role is based on, almost a mission. For example. 'My characters super objective is to get the children to bed'. Knowing my characters super objective also helps acting and subtly showing the audience what your super objective is by acting clearly and using good vocal and movement skills..
Also we learnt about 'Given Circumstances', these are based on The 3 P's.
Place
People
Problem
Its to do with when a character has to create scene with only the given circumstances of creating a place, people (characters) and a problem and this helps create more imagination and creativity skills.
In the second session we discovered a thing called ;Subtext' this identifies a phrase such as
'That dress looks lovely on you'
to its hidden or implyment meaning of
'Omg that dress is horrible on you'
It creates a different view on each sentence. Especially the emotion expression in which the sentence is projected.
In the first session, we learnt that a characters 'Super Objective' is something that their role is based on, almost a mission. For example. 'My characters super objective is to get the children to bed'. Knowing my characters super objective also helps acting and subtly showing the audience what your super objective is by acting clearly and using good vocal and movement skills..
Also we learnt about 'Given Circumstances', these are based on The 3 P's.
Place
People
Problem
Its to do with when a character has to create scene with only the given circumstances of creating a place, people (characters) and a problem and this helps create more imagination and creativity skills.
In the second session we discovered a thing called ;Subtext' this identifies a phrase such as
'That dress looks lovely on you'
to its hidden or implyment meaning of
'Omg that dress is horrible on you'
It creates a different view on each sentence. Especially the emotion expression in which the sentence is projected.
Tuesday 8TH March Vocal And Movement!!
In today's lesson we elaborated more on vocal skills. The learning objectives were to 'To understand how intonation plays a significant part in engaging an audience' and 'To concentrate on how important clarity is to the speaking of a text'.
In the first lesson we used alot of our vocal skills by doing 2 excersises.
1. This excersise was based on the whole group sitting in a circle and by one by one saying the phrase 'I Killed Him' in a different perspective. Changing the view on the sentence by varying the vocal skills, perhaps emphasizing certain words or changing pitch in the voice. Next was to do the same process however perform a small action which is thought to pair with the sentence or create an appropriate message towards the audience. This helps expression and exaggeration in speech and also projection volume by using imagination in the way the audience could interperate the way you say a certain phrase.
2. This excersise was based on a series of 'Tongue Twisters' being shown on the board. However, together as a class we were to pronounce the Twister once, twice, thrice, and then 5 times and at the present time get faster and faster and soon we ended up tripping over the words. This helped us pronounce words faster, clearer and control projection and pace.
We also learnt that a thing called Proxemics can affect the reaction of the audience. It is where you use space and control movement and gestures in between the space of you and the opposing actor/ess.
It can affect the reaction by creating a different emotion, for example, if the characters are close together and gaining contact, this may show a romantic emotion. Also this helps create a relationship between the actor/esses and the audience.
After break, we practised saying different sentences in different emotions. For example.
A: Cake is very yummy.
B: Dogs are so cute.
A: I hate cold weather
B: Why am i crazy
& in partners one person is A and the other B and you can pronounce these in different emotions. It doesn't matter what the sentence IS its HOW you say it.
Then shortly afterwards, we practised the Blood Brothers script in our partners. We kept in mind the subtext is used so we used our vocal skills more by emphasizing words with emotion.
In the first lesson we used alot of our vocal skills by doing 2 excersises.
1. This excersise was based on the whole group sitting in a circle and by one by one saying the phrase 'I Killed Him' in a different perspective. Changing the view on the sentence by varying the vocal skills, perhaps emphasizing certain words or changing pitch in the voice. Next was to do the same process however perform a small action which is thought to pair with the sentence or create an appropriate message towards the audience. This helps expression and exaggeration in speech and also projection volume by using imagination in the way the audience could interperate the way you say a certain phrase.
2. This excersise was based on a series of 'Tongue Twisters' being shown on the board. However, together as a class we were to pronounce the Twister once, twice, thrice, and then 5 times and at the present time get faster and faster and soon we ended up tripping over the words. This helped us pronounce words faster, clearer and control projection and pace.
We also learnt that a thing called Proxemics can affect the reaction of the audience. It is where you use space and control movement and gestures in between the space of you and the opposing actor/ess.
It can affect the reaction by creating a different emotion, for example, if the characters are close together and gaining contact, this may show a romantic emotion. Also this helps create a relationship between the actor/esses and the audience.
After break, we practised saying different sentences in different emotions. For example.
A: Cake is very yummy.
B: Dogs are so cute.
A: I hate cold weather
B: Why am i crazy
& in partners one person is A and the other B and you can pronounce these in different emotions. It doesn't matter what the sentence IS its HOW you say it.
Then shortly afterwards, we practised the Blood Brothers script in our partners. We kept in mind the subtext is used so we used our vocal skills more by emphasizing words with emotion.
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