Q1. Why do we want to create truth on stage?
-We want to create truth on stage because it makes the play and characters more realistic, therefore will engage more with the audience as they will be able to feel it.
We started a session by playing a game called 'Id don't believe you'
Q2. Why did we play this game?
-I think we played this game in order to sort of build our confidence when performing humorous or sad depressing scenes in front of an audience. We also did this to help us to convey our emotions in different situations, and get us thinking on the spot, using improvisation.
Q3. What did you learn from watching it?
-I learnt that it is quite hard to change your emotions, and think of things on the spot. Sometimes silence is really powerful in acting, is what I learnt when watching other people perform.
Write about one of the people that took part in the game ( Chem, Tyler, Kimberly, TJ, Skye and Ursula)
Q4. What situation were they entering the room from?
-Tyler was entering the room when realising that All of his things were gone.
Q5. How were they able to show truth?
-Tyler was finally able to show truth at the end when he used nothing but silence to present how he felt (except for when he said 'that was his favorite chair', which was obviously sad as his dog had just died.
Q6. What did they change each time they entered the room?
-I noticed that Tyler tended to use less and less speech in each time he entered the room.
Q7. Were they successful in creating a truthful performance? How? Why?
-Tyler was sort of successful in the end, because he was doing really well, and I believed it for a while until he said 'that was his favorite chair' which sort of made the whole thing slightly humorous, and ruined the depressing atmosphere. He was doing well because he used silence and his whole body language was just depressed and slumped as he went to sit on the chair. It was successful because that's the kind of thing most people would do if their dog had just died, also the audience believed..........most of it.
After the break we explored breaking bad news using non-verbal communication.
Q8. What is non-verbal communication?
-Non-verbal communication is when you communicate with someone without speaking, so it could be through body language, facial expressions ect.
Q9. What scenes did you create and who did you work with?
-I worked with TJ, in our scene we showed a man telling another man that his baby had just died, in order to show what we were doing we started with me walking up and down the stage out of sight of TJ looking worried, and then I walk over to TJ, he runs up to me nodding his head hopefully, and I take my hat off and shake my head, he then begins crying, hitting the walls and attempts to run over to the surgery room, I pulled him back and sort of shook him around a little to sort of shake some sense into him, and we walked away with our arms round each other.
Q10. How did you make sure the scenes were truthful?
-We made it truthful because that's the kind of thing people would tend to do in real life situations, I believe.
Q11. What other pair did you think were successful and why?
-I thought Tyler and Ursula's one was successful as they had something different, which was a couple splitting up and they were really upset about it, I think they were successful because I believed it, and I'm pretty sure everyone else in the room believed it.
Look up Stanislavsky, find a picture of what he looks like and create a short fact-file on him.
Name: Constantin Stanilavsky
D.O.B: 17th of January 1863
Inventions: Stanilavsky method
First independent production: Leo Tolstoy's the fruits of enlightenment (1981)
Plays directed: The seagull (1898), The three sisters (1901), The cherry Orchard (1903)
Died: August 7th 1939
You worked on a piece of text. You explored Leah's first monologue. You worked with a partner to work out the subtext of the monologue. You need to upload the text you annotated to show what you did.
Q12. What is subtext?
-Subtext is thoughts not expressed directly in the text such as emotions and tension. It is the unspoken content under the spoken dialogue.
Q13. why did we work out the subtext of the monologue?
-We did this in order to try and guess what we thought that the characters were thinking as they are talking in their dialogue, it also helps to give us a greater understanding of the characters, which will help us to act as the character and to know what they are thinking
Q14. Did it help you to have better understanding of the character?
-Yes, because we sort of have an understanding of what they are thinking, therefore giving us an advantage when acting as them.
Q15. Why will a truthful performance be be important to our performance in DNA?
-So that if the performance is truthful it will make the performance more realistic, therefore the audience will believe it, making it a more engaging performance, and more interesting for the audience.
By JJ Steadford
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