Tuesday: The year 13's gave their TPPP's today! and they were amazing! They all had wonderful, insightful experiences that they were able to link to other parts of the course.
- Make sure to use the "key words" e.g. theatre in performance, reflection,...
- Include ways that you have failed, as an actor, designer,... (be sure to mention how you would have done better if given the chance)
- Use many references to performances that you have seen
- Even if you did not have a particular experience (e.g. going to a performance) you can still refer to it
- Use the pictures to tell a story
- Come full circle-start by telling about how you were at the beginning of the class and end telling how you have changed
- Have extensive notes
- Be practiced and polished so you do not panic and forget your points and so that you sound professional
- Use things from different aspects of theatre to sound well-rounded and hit more points
They were all very good and the experience worries me. I am worried about speaking for twenty minutes, having to plan a speech that will last that long and cover all of those things!
Wednesday:Today the warm-up was more interesting than the actual studio work. The warm-up was more clowning work. It dealt with using the clown nose. Each member of the class was given the clown nose and told to stand (still) in front of the rest of the class and display different emotions while maintaining eye contact with different members of the audience.
Reflection
- One of the emotions that each of us did was attempt to remain neutral, which was extremely hard. When you are up in front of everyone, making eye contact with them, it is very difficult to remember what a passive expression/posture is. Also a passive/neutral expression is more touching than a forced emotion.
- The audience's response to the actor is also very awkward.
- Some audience members unintentionally copied the emotion of the actor to alleviate the awkwardness
- Others giggled to alleviate the weirdness
- Some would concentrate/clear mind to control their emotion
- Some tried to stare down the performer
- It was interesting to remember that the audience is almost more embarrassed than you, the audience even sees the performer as vulnerable
- Moving is a way to avoid/hide from the audience
- It can be more difficult to remain still while doing some emotions as opposed to others
- It is very difficult to appear natural while nervous
- Changing posture can help to convey emotion
- It was more difficult to perform for a friend/acquaintance than a complete stranger, you have a connection with them and making eye contact can ruin your character
- When you go slow the tension level increases, for both sides, performer and audience
- Pauses are very powerful, especially on stage
- Contrast can be very powerful as well, contrast between the emotion and pace
- We, as an audience, are glued to a person standing still
- Some people found the nose to be helpful and some found it to be a distraction
- Me-Personally as a performer and an audience member I felt very uncomfortable, in fact I dreaded my turn in front and when the performer was staring at me.
Thursday: We actually finished the piece today!!! We ran through the entire piece while Mr. Fearnehough took pictures and watched. The piece went smoothly, but it could have been better. We worked together well as a team, but we did not have the stage presence and comedic life. I was surprised by how comfortable I was onstage, not completely comfortable but less awkward than I was expecting. Another thing that is less surprising is that I made a horrible boy, in my part as Jack the male ammorati. While we are improving this performance really makes the point that we will never be perfect, and that theatre is always changing.
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