Today the first two hours of our lesson was a workshop run by Frantic Assembly. The last hour consisted of all groups perfecting their scenes and we started to merge pieces together.
The Frantic Assembly experience was superb. We learned how to carry ourselves in a space, before learning how to physically carry somebody else. The workshop was full of exciting, physical and different explorations which engaged us all. I loved learning how to lead someone around a space and in turn for them to lead me. For this exercise we had our eyes closed, I was scared at first but soon realized that I had to trust my partner. I did this by focusing and believing in both my partner and I. When we swapped, I somehow managed to knock my partner into another person which made me question whether I would trust myself in such a precise exercise. Luckily no one was hurt though and I think the exercise will help me to trust future partners quicker.
After this we continued to explore physical movement for a while, before heading back to class (I believe that the workshop will benefit our Monday lessons more that our Thursday lessons, however saying that, our target audience consists of little children that will probably engage with colours and movement more than words).
When we went back to class everyone was knackered. I myself started to feel a bit ill and physically couldn't do much but still tried to take part in the rehearsal as much as I could. At times I just sat at the front and directed instead, because the movement was making me feel dizzy. By watching the piece, I could give directions to people and see what was working and what wasn't. The best thing about sitting at the front was seeing the piece start to come together.
Today we as a collective, put our ideas together and produced a end product that flowed and looked like one piece instead of two separate ones. We didn't add all of the pieces together and so we will need to develop the scene still, we will do this by blending similar parts of scenes together and making each individual thing one.
No ideas where rejected at this point.
We are using acting skills suck as:
- freeze frames (some toys are frozen whilst others aren't)
- Speech (in the form of poetic language and rhyme)
- Music (played live, it sets a tone)
- Physical Theatre (used to engage the young audience)
After this we continued to explore physical movement for a while, before heading back to class (I believe that the workshop will benefit our Monday lessons more that our Thursday lessons, however saying that, our target audience consists of little children that will probably engage with colours and movement more than words).
When we went back to class everyone was knackered. I myself started to feel a bit ill and physically couldn't do much but still tried to take part in the rehearsal as much as I could. At times I just sat at the front and directed instead, because the movement was making me feel dizzy. By watching the piece, I could give directions to people and see what was working and what wasn't. The best thing about sitting at the front was seeing the piece start to come together.
Today we as a collective, put our ideas together and produced a end product that flowed and looked like one piece instead of two separate ones. We didn't add all of the pieces together and so we will need to develop the scene still, we will do this by blending similar parts of scenes together and making each individual thing one.
No ideas where rejected at this point.
We are using acting skills suck as:
- freeze frames (some toys are frozen whilst others aren't)
- Speech (in the form of poetic language and rhyme)
- Music (played live, it sets a tone)
- Physical Theatre (used to engage the young audience)
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