week 5 and week 6

week 5/6 

This week we studied a different style of acting called Epic Theatre by Brecht; we also looked at the history of Brecht, while studying Brecht some how managed to full in to politics and what we think as teenagers and if we agree with society of today. This was to give an inside of our thoughts; in are groups we had to decide on a subject that annoyed us. when we started to talk about this within our groups it was hard to agree on one thing together so i said about GCSE; this was something we all agreed on. Due to the argument who is the government to put a grade on someone that works hard in life but not very acdimic like myself as during school i had 100% attence but yet didn't now work out with the grades i wanted and was meant to get as when it came to the exams i panic. The government cant even say that it effects you in life as it dose and we all know it dose as you have go to the grads to take the subjects you want to do in college and uni i was lucky enough to get mine, unlike some people i know. 

During these two weeks we looked at a different typed of method acting; I was used for an example of an experience I had by this it help see how must shows like the actors to show a story and this was reacting the story that had happened at the weekend;  it was story that i unsure to shear but I felt the group meaning class was close enough to hear and understand. The other was was to tell it how you would tell a friend by using hand movement, this can be used on stage to bring the aduince into the story or to give tgem more detail. I felt like some of this method got be used during my scene by the realness of when  Anne has to hide the plague. 

Also during these weeks i had to do some sheakspear research on script to fine the correct monuglog that suited me, I found this a strungle at first due to im not a fan after speaking with karen we found a speach that suited me but had to mix it us a bit but we can also link it to Anne; that helps the aduince feel more for her. Wheb reading the script its hard to found the rhythm so ive had to practice at home while bouncing and say the words slow this has helped abit but im still struggling with how to say some words to tell the truth,  I just hope and guess that the more I work on it the better it will get.  

Not only have I worked on mine scene I have also put some ideas forward for scene of Imogen and Alicia and how they discover each other within the wardrobe.

week 4 (27th-2nd)

 

This week was mainly looking at different style to act and how we can bring ourselves as an actor to the character more and how to make them more realistic.

First it was hard to become Anne as i couldn’t put myself into the mind farm of having disease that bad, so in my group we tried to act it like the swin-flu was around again. Even though it wasn’t as bad as the plague, it sat the mind to be aware for the stuff your character touches with in the wardrobe. This began to help me become the character Anne.

 While reading over the script normally we though the story was that the plague was around and Anne never can have her dream of being on stage. So as an whole class we did a task that put beats into the script; these beats are just small pause when saying sentence. As group we then showed it back to the rest of the class and we found that where I put the beats into the script, it was much like me and not Anne. As myself that when talking in a conversation I tend to take pause a lot; it became more noticeable when the class picked up on it and mentioned it to me, so for Anne to have the pause in that we original had was not Anne it was me. To solve the problem I went an looked at the script and read over the lines to change in which I’ve done in class.

Dring the week we worked on different states of acting and how we could apply it to our characters these are the key ones that i thought would work as group also as Anne:,

•State 1- Awakening, this state would work for the begin of the play as we are all bored in the wardrobe, so the slight s movement of the body would help to get this across to the audience and i know as myself when I’m bored ill touch my face a lot or move my thumb over the other one and looking around; this is something i can bring to Anne as character. This could one that we all use in a group.

•State 6- Definitely someone is watching you, this could also work with group in the performance as it could work with when Mary and Anne think that Sarah has plague on page 17 and the top of page 18 on the script, as we are both in fear that Sarah has the plague and we do not want it.

•State 9 -the bomb has gone off, this is a good state to have over all as the bomb in the room is that Anne has the plague but has not told anyway as she is hiding it, as she wants to think that her dream will come true this will also work well with state-5 someone watching you; as it helps show paranoia and Anne could show this due to the plague and she don’t want the others to found out that she is carrying it. Also state 7- about to catch a ball this, this works well for Anne as there is something in the air waiting for someone to hear it so like cliff-hanger is the best why i can describe it.