Friday 11 January 2013

Summary

From the day I started I have currently learnt how to do mind visualization to relax the body and mind, to do this, you lay on the floor and concentrate on your breathing, then you tense every part of your body starting from your foot making your way up to your shoulders and then you imagine all your stress and problems are in a bubble, and that the bubble is drifting away out of the window. After this we got into pairs and stared in their eyes and then we had to give an emotion for the other person to think about, for example Fear, Friendliness, Afraid and Boredom.
We read a poem written from Simon Armitage, called "GIVE" and we had to work in pairs and for every word in the poem we had to communicate with others by moving in the given space we had.

After this we joined in some vocal exercises, and then we got some chairs and placed them one side of the room and we took it in turns to sit the other side of the room and get asked questions, and these questions were; If I ruled the world, My happiest Moment, The job I'd hate to have and why.
We got asked these question to project the volume of our voices to make sure people the other end of the room could hear us.

Then we got given some short monologues to memorize, then we performed them and then we went over different ways on how it would be easier for us to memorize lines, and then we got shown a list of questions that would help us create a character from our monologues. After we learnt about blocking movement and then we decided on what movement we was going to do and then we performed our monologues in front of the class.

We then learnt about the Constantine Stanislavsky technique which was "What If" and this technique is what if i was in that situation, we then compared our characters with ourselves, and that really helped us get into character when we needed to.
We learnt about Objective, Obstacle and tactic, which was we had to get into pairs and one of us picked an object and a sheet of paper with a word on it, then the other person had to give descriptive reason to why they want the object because they were trying to get it, and then we had to fight to stop them getting the object.

1 comment:

  1. This is much more in depth Sarah. You have evaluated the performance of your monologue assessment and given some insight into how you prepared for the role, well done. Please keep this up and do consider videoing the process in session as it would be a welcome addition to see some of this process in action.

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