musical betec

12th september 2012


musical theatre


we started the lesson with a warm up  and a general chat to see how everyone is and then we started with a exercise called "what are you doing". the game started of with a person frozen in a position either left form the last scene of impro or a new pose to link each scene together creating the structure of each scene it also  gives the second person time to come up  with an idea for a scene.  the game has two  rules : "exception and yes" and the scene must always contain a relationship between the two characters  ad a scenario. the scenes worked best if they were realistic situations and had both characters going with it.
we then  added another person to each scene and the excersis changed to freeze tag now people could freeze a scene if they felt the scene was loosing effort and dragged bit having three people for me changed the dynamics and actually made the give and take a lot harder.

we then got given a map and we had as  a group design our own town we then came up with the basic details of a character, my character was twenty one called maria who owned most of the east side of the village including the hospital shes was quite a snoot stuck up character.
we then had Emily's  character who linked each of the scenes together as a taxi person as she goes round she stops at different scenes whilst the rest of us stayed in freeze frames in character.
our scene was about me being stuffy to a employee and telling i want impressed by scene included Maisie  Emily and Ben.

i have learnt that is is difficult to think on the spot but i really enjoy freeze tag the feeling of  being spontaneous  i have learnt im confident enough to put my self forward instead of being picked i also learnt that improv is give and take and you have to just go with the scene also giving the other person some control to. i  know this will help in the long run to ease any nerves about mucking up and i think it will also help with cews at the end of then sentences making sure the pace of the scene keeps going, the pace in a scene means everything as it can make ascene go from being fun and exciting to unrelistic and uncomfortable.
my strength - im good at thinking on the spot and charecterisation
my weakness - i need to go for more realistic situations instead of creating drama because this can make a scene run out of ideas.