In this lesson we made astounding progress with out East End Tales piece in not just one of the groups but all of them. In our class 2 groups have already finished the outline of their tales and are working on polishing and finalizing them. Although, our group alongside the other 2 have one more week to finish our tales I feel that we can still create a distinction level piece of theatre.
A number of changes were made this week regarding the usually warm up, firstly the 2 classes will now warm up together in one room instead of being split into 2 separate rooms. However, as soon as the warm up is finished we will still return to the usually classes. Our first activity was to improvise a scene where four people would be placed in the shape of a diamond and perform various actions with a word. As we continued more people stood up and joined the diamond until the whole group was together chanting and copying the actions that the person at the front of the diamond was doing. The leaders were rotated until more or less every person in the room had an opportunity to improvise some moves.
While we did not work on the tales where the boys and girls were split up we made huge progress on our individual group tales. Our group in particular managed to create a well thought out scene with only 1/4 left from completion. My targets from the start of the lesson was to cooperate more with the group instead of hanging back where the decisions were already made for me and by the time it was the end of the lesson I was already speaking and putting out some of my ideas to the group. Furthermore, from this I have learned to never hold yourself back when there is a clear opportunity for you. However, I had also learned that I need to clearly explain some of my ideas as my group thought they wouldn't work, of which I have to agree with them.
Nevertheless, this lesson we made more progress than any other lesson before and I hope we continue to do so in the future. However, although I have learned many techniques and such from these lessons I have discovered I have a lot to work on some of these issues are.
- Staying In Focus
- Cooperating with my group further
- Articulating and projecting my lines
