We did an Artaud technique where we faced the walls of the studio not facing/looking at anyone and had to represent an emotional through sounds and body movements. We weren't allowed to use dialogue.
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It got us to try to express an emotion without relying dialogue which we often do when it comes to performing. It made us think of how we could use sound and our bodies in a way to convey this. I felt as if my body movements and positions helped express the emotions I was trying to convey which was 'annoyance' and 'excitement'. I did this by, for annoyance, having a slouched posture resting my chin on my hand. Then for excitement, sitting in an up right position, in a firm stiff posture.
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I felt as a group that we didn't have a lot of energy with this exercise as a lot of people would feel awkward and silly doing this particular technique. Which is almost intended however, it meant that some people shied away from this activity. To perhaps help we could maybe do it in smaller groups then add more people gradually in a larger area.
Random Line - We were each given a random line that no one else knew. And we had to choose an emotion to say it in an go up to another person. They then had to react to our one liners and almost create an improve scene.
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I felt that people jumped straight into this activity with high energy levels when it came to voice and body movements. For example, when I said my line 'what did you dream about last night?' I bounded over to Naomi with high energy and positivity smiling and said the line with enthusiasm. This showed that I was excited and almost slightly younger in age in characteristics. Naomi reacted to this with a contrasting emotion - sarcasm/annoyance. Which completely changed the atmosphere and direction of how they improve seen could have gone making it more interesting.
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I could try and say the line in a different pitch and try different physicality's to see how the scene would change and how we would interact with one another.
We then did this exercise later on but this time performing them in our characters and reacting to other people in our own characters and how they would respond.
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I felt that I started to understand my character more and how they would interact with certain character's. For example, I found that my character thought Sarah was annoying at times but was still her close friend and that my character didn't like Joe at all and shut him down for conversation at every possible opportunity. The characteristics I found prominent for my character after doing this exercise were that they were fairly cruel to a lot of people but hid it with sarcasm/humour a lot of the time. Or hid it in presence of her sister who could be harsher than her.
Masks - we then did a duo mask exercise where we were given a scenario and we had to act it our completely with our bodies without any form of sound.
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This helped me focus on my body and how to move my arms, legs, fingers and head in a way to convey a certain characteristic/emotion. For example, I had a creepy looking mask so to interpret this I used jerky movements and elongated my legs and arms when moving. Using snappy head movements. This meant that my character came off as sinister and a trickster. Not to be trusted. Which was my intention.
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