Monday 26th November

We spoke a bit about our pitches and helped each other with ways we could improve them. We now have to perfect the Pitch with 250 words.

We then got told to sit in our own space and close our eyes and relax ourselves and listen to what sounded like a poem Mr. Fearnehough was reading which was called a ‘Euphoric Poetry’. We had to then think about a performance we had seen in London and think of emotions, smells, experiences, feelings, words etc…We had to then write all the things we thought of on a piece of paper, we then all said the words out at the same time. We were then told our weeks homework to do an acid test on all the words we had written down.

Wednesday 28th November

Wednesday was Abby’s BIG DAY she had to present her TPPP presentation and her master class! It was interesting to see how her experience was of TaPS because she was in a completely different location to the rest of us in London.

After Abby's presentation, we talked about ‘Audience Perception’ with Mr. Fearnehough .  The audience perception is about how the audience always recieves a different perception when watching a production, film... because of different aspects:

space

culture

mood

personality

interest

senses

gender and age

 After this discussion we then did freeze frames of the words we wrote down on the Monday lesson. Everyone’s freeze frames were different and interesting to be put in to.

It was then Abby’s turn to do her Master class which was about Slow Motion, which was really interesting and fun to learn about through the activities Abby planned.  It made me understand Slow Motion better and how it can be used in choreography in fight scenes during performance. And the master classes showed us that it takes a lot of skill to learn Slow Motion.  

Thursday 29th Novemeber

Thursday was Axel’s turn to do his master class which was on ‘Verbatim and Lineals’. I already had an idea about what it was because I was in the same ensemble then Axel in London but being in a much smaller group was better to go over the things that weren’t very clear to me. Axel explained them really well and now it’s even clearer than it was in London when we learnt about it. He gave us good examples of companies that do verbatim theatre. The exercises we did were really fun and interesting to do even though I had already done it.  I would really like to do Verbatim or Lineals in a future performance because they look so entertaining and real.