https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hPp7Gux7s&feature=youtu.be
In this solo improvisation, I explored the space and used mime. I had to express my emotions through muttered speech and clear movement and gesture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOAhyeSht_I&feature=youtu.be
This was a solo improvisation in which I was driving and I shouted at the Sat Nav to shut up. I tried to understand the role of someone who was impatient and someone was late- but it wasn't their fault. I learned that when you are carrying out a solo improvisation and it's up to you to engage the audience. If you falter, it means you're not in character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjna2Nv5U0
In this improvisation our group had a disagreement. The blame changed to different people and the emotion changed frequently. Our feedback was that we worked together as a team and were able to switch the emotion well.
https://youtu.be/w0jKHRKyxqc
Callum and I were doing a pairs improvisation. We were really having to listen to each other so that the scene flowed.
11 September. We looked at quite basic improv work this week. In our small groups, we had some very little scenarios to look at. We did an exercise where one person left the room and in a pair, we made a scenario based on an emotion, and the person who left had to guess what the word or emotion was. We had a funeral, a therapy session, and a patient anxious for test results. This helped us to look at what we were trying to convey, and how the audience would feel in response. On THURSDAY, we did scenarios in pairs as there were 5 of us. These pieces were contrasting. Fair example, one person wanted a pet, the other didn't. There were family scenes, friendship ones and school scenes. It really helped to work with a range of people, with different acting styles.I researched Mike Leigh and looked at his work on youtube. He is a very talented director. His actors are fantastic as they work in a team, without corpsing, and with the ability to devise scenes based on anything. 18 September. This week, we continued doing little scenes. We worked in a small group of 3, creating scenarios based on conversations or relevant group ideas. Callum discussed the Mary Rose, so we made a scene about that, with a tour guide, a mother and a bored child. We also did a dispute improv, with a problem of different people wanting to watch different things at a cinema. We also worked on a difficult restraunt customers with conflicting problems. We also did a guessing game where we had to assign someone a character, or real person, and make them guess and imagine themselves in their shoc, in order to work out who was chosen for them. This was quite hard as the spectrum of types of character or real person are so broad. 25 September. This week we were introduced to solo improvs. This was where we focussed on one actor, with a scenario. Mina was a person none alone, hearing a sound at the door, and panicking as it was from the kitchen. My first attempt was with lots of speech, and my second had none. I found that without any speech, I found it hard at to portray what I wanted to, however, apparently my expression and movement was better that way. Too much speech took away from that. In future, I will try to use my body more, and speech a little less, but using a fair mixture. We were introduced to one line improv. We were given a line and one of us had to use it at first, launching in to an improv. WE worked together well on this, as the improv sparked from the line, and we worked together while put on the spot. We needed to be spontaneous and dynamic. 2 October. This week, we advanced the one liners, by only one person knowing what it would be. This stopped us from overthinking, or being able to plan much storyline. We also looked at people in a place with a problem, as this was a basic improv technique that helps you define characters, context and issue for a piece. 14 October. This week we worked on one line improv, in a group of 4. This is very different as this exercise began in a pair, and was increased to 4 people. We also looked at particular scenarios, like people on the edge of a cliff. We had a couple of seconds to plan, but then we began. The topic was so broad that it could lead anywhere, and it actually traveled down the suicide path, and it was interesting for me to put myself in the shoes of some one trying to put a stop to a mass suicide.
3 November Today we devised and led a workshop where we taught basic improv games to some delegates who had come to the college to learn about working with V.I people. We taught Da Da Diddly, and Fortunately Unfortunately, also What Happened to Maria. They seemed interested and had a few questions about the course for us. We then worked in a group to do a restauraunt improv. This improvisation focused on using mime skills.We each had a character trait to impersonate. Mine was a newly redundant character. We had five minutes planning time before starting. We then realised we'd been overthinking so we began. We got our timings well, and worked together well. We then worked in pairs with doctor patient improvs. It helped us to work together, with enough room for dialogue. We also learnt how each other worked. It was good to work with Charlotte and Angel, as I had not worked with them much before.
As part of our Auditions for Actors unit, we used improvisation to learn more about our monologue characters. I found this a particularly useful exercise as it enabled me to make more of a connection to Charlie from 'Keepig Tom Nice' Below is some footage from this activity.
https://youtu.be/P_lpyYCCauI
https://youtu.be/wJKZ9Mzns5U
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