Acting & music week three

During week three we followed the same routine that we always follow, start the day with a warmup to get us ready for the day so our bodies and voices are nice and healthy. After these warmups we usually start our lessons with Richard and Olexandra in semi supine, semi supine is a position of lying down on your back with your knees up and palms also facing upwards, with your body totally and completely relaxed. We du this to warmup our voice box and resonators. Resonators are the vibration that is caused in either your chest, throat, nasal, and even head, our voice passes through this vibration and is changed, to be low, or really high. During Olexandra’s lesson we rehearsed; hit the road jack, hallelujah, and believe. We had a look at our knowledge of different stage types and directions. We also had a quick look at the units we have to go through and what is expected of us. With Mike we did some stuff on fairy talas, storytelling and Greek mythology, we did this because we had to make our own little play with has the tropes of a fairy tale, and all in all I think I did pretty well, I wrote the script for my group’s play with their help, and as a collective we made all the actions, for scene 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6. I thought I did particularly well on this considering I dwelled in fairy tales for a couple of years and heavily enjoy it. And finally with Richard we like always start the workshop with vocal and pulse raising exercises, we do dis to get us ready for drama school because they will likely make us do some of these activities to see if we’re giving it our all, and not holding off on them. After our warmups, we practised more techniques, for example the Meisner technique, this is when two people sit in front of each other and all that exists in that space and time is the two of them, one of them will point something out about them and the other will repeat, for example; your fidgeting, I’m fidgeting, your fidgeting, I’m fidgeting. This technique is useful because it helps us with learning our monologues better and being more confident in performing in front of people. We also did another technique which was to disband our diisbelief, basically we had a pencil and we had to imagine it was the most beloved person to us, we made a backstory with them, fell in love and at the end we could chose to snap the pencil, killing this imaginary person, or let it be unable to snap it. I instantly snapped it because, me myself are a very destructive being and I’m also quite synicall which means I don’t believe in the kind of stuff which it’s exactly why it’s a good exercise for me.