Lesson 4

Lesson 4
In this lesson we began to cover the scenes that we are going to focus on over the next weeks to come and the same scene we are going to perform to our friends and family. We started with two warm ups; the simple reaction game, "splat"; and an improvisation game that our group calls "the bench game". Although these games do not seem very significant to us, I believe they serve the purpose of getting the whole group ready for the time ahead.

As soon as we were finished with splat and the bench game, we set forth to our next event. Splitting into groups of 4 we were told to perform an event that had happened in the East End. Analysing the news we were given in the form of a report, we identified that 15 gang members, the gang name not mentioned, were captured by CCTV lighting rockets; firing them at nearby police cars. Straight away my first emotion of the event was surprised, and it seemed the rest of the group had agreed with me so we went forward with the idea to mould our re-enactment with the objective to capture the aspect of surprise and shock to the audience as the report had to us.

After performing to the rest of the group we heard both positive and negative reviews. Most positive comments noticed our efforts to create the surprise in the scene and praised us for it. On the other hand, the negatives were the result of us spending too much time on one aspect, this being surprise. I have learned from this activity that spending too much time on one emotion in a scene can actually reflect back on the ways to improve it. If we aim to make a distinction scene then we need to cover all emotions to the same level that we did for the emotion surprise.

Using the knowledge from our previous scene, we had the opportunity to create a higher level one. Tale 6 from the play was our chosen act to use our skills on and we had just about every emotion there was to have about this crossing our minds while planning. With little time we figured that it would be nearly impossible to cram every single emotion into one scene so we focused on majors instead. Giving the best performance we could possibly give we earned a round of a applause signalling the lesson coming to a close. Today I learned many things such as focusing on individual emotions and hope to use these skills in the future ahead.