Masterclasses & PItches

Our double lesson on Wednesday was when Halley and Bekki did their masterclasses.

Halley's masterclass was about Miming. It was a really exciting and interesting masterclass and everyone has heard about Miming but had never been taught HOW to mime!

In Halley's masterclass we learnt about:

• Etienne Decroux 
• Expression through movement
• Three principles of movement

Halley did an amazing job of teaching everyone about miming, she was loud, energetic and fun. 

We reflected after the masterclass about how we could use miming later on in the course to help in projects. 

It can help by:

• miming can help break down movements
• miming can project a mood to the audience instead of showing emotions e.g the devil in damned by despair
• its a technique to find movements
• style of movement can be used when you're acting
• miming can mark the moment
• make a movement supernatural and emphasise a movement

Bekki did her masterclass on Creating the Ensemble Feel. We did 4 activites in the masterclass and kept in mind four words we learnt from TAPS which were: ENERGY, MOMEMTUM, RISK AND JOY. 

Bekki leaded the masterclass amazingly, she made the group join together, the energy level was so high and everyone was excited and interested in every game. 

The activities we did were:

• Yes warm up
• Eye contact game
• bears and lumberjacks
• what type of performer are you?

These activities helped everyone reflect on ourselves and us as a group. The "yes game" raised energy straight away and breaked the tension in the group. 

All the activites helped everyone realise not to worry about breaking the bounderies in theatre because taking risks is a good thing to do. 

Everyone also has a big responsibility in keeping the energy level up in the group because if one person breaks it, then energy falls for everyone. 

Thursday-

We played "the voice" when listening to eachothers 50 word pitches for a production we saw in London. 

We got advice on how to improve them to get the most information in our pitches as possible. 

Now we have to put the word limit down from 250 to 50 to 10 words!! 

Then it was my turn to do my masterclass on Immersive Theatre.

I first discussed with my group about what immersive theatre was and how it is used. I then split the group into two and asked them to produce a short immersive theatre piece. One person from the other group would join to group performing to get the experience of immersive theatre. Only one group got to perform as the bell rang but that group produce a good piece. 

The point was to understand what immersive theatre is and why it is used. 

I would love to reflect with the group on how Halley felt when she took part in the other groups performance and it would be good to reflect on how to improve these short sketches to make them more immersive.