Week 6

This week we didn’t learn any key techniques, however we improved our work with the techniques we already knew.
we improved the starting scenes from Grimm Tales, we started to think more in-depth on how the play way written, and how the audience would perceive it, so it’s got a more cartoony feel about it so we decided that we’d make our gestures really big and over exaggerate everything about our characters so they are more comedic and funnier for the audience. Further more, we improved the ‘goat’ character by, instead of walking on all fours, we made it so the goat only had to walk on two. We also gave a more comedic scene to the goat where, when the goat is hungry and goes out to ‘graze’ the goat goes right up to the audience/camera and starts nibbling at them. To improve everything this way we used magic if, to analyse the play and the characters and give them a deeper characteristic that could improve our performance in a whole.

magic if, is the technique of imagination, it allows us to enter a world that doesn’t exist in the play, or we weren’t informed about so we can get a more in-depth analysis on our characters.

we also used given circumstances to read through the play and point out the facts given about our characters, so we could potentially use that to our advantage and make our play more comedic; for example, the opening line of the play, father says “once there was a tailor who had three sons and one goat” the given circumstances here are that the father is a tailor, has three sons, and has one goat. We used this with a pause at, three sons, [pause] and one goat. This made the scene seem comedic because at first the goat thought that it was one of the sons but then is moody when it turns out to be a goat.

with Olexandra we did a couple, and by a couple I mean many breathing/diction/projection vocal exercises, we got a sheet that had several exercises for us to try out, we did them all and recorded ourselves doing them and we got given a homework task to do them at home too.

I will add the videos of myself doing these exercises at a later date