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.