Brainstorming words for 1 minute from an image

My:

Love,
Regret,
Hope,
Asking for love,
Imperfection Vs Perfection

Others:

Meaningless

Pose

Heart-ships

Drunk

Kneeling

Confidence

Cornered

Class 4 - Reflections

We have learnt a lot in the past three lessons, definitions of useful words, and names of old, and new, ways we can improve our drama.  It has been lots of fun, but its hard to think that its been but four short lessons since we started, and we have come so far.  Todays lesson was fun, even though we only got through one of the stimuli.

Definitions

 Action/plot/content (the story, the characters and/or the theme(s) of the drama).
􀁲 Forms (the way the story is told, the characters are portrayed and/or the themes are depicted).
􀁲 Climax/anti-climax (building and/or releasing tension in the drama and/or a sense of
expectation).
􀁲 Rhythm/pace/tempo (the rate at which the action moves along and the extent to which this changes).
􀁲 Contrasts (for example stillness versus activity/silence versus noise).
􀁲 Characterisation (the means used to portray a role using vocal and physical skills).
􀁲 Conventions (using techniques such as slow motion, freeze-frame, audience asides, soliloquy, establishing one part of the space as one location and a different part of the space as another).
􀁲 Symbols (the representational use of props, gestures, expressions, costume, lighting, and/or setting. For example, blue lighting to represent night time, a white costume to represent the innocence of a character).
Still image (for example one person might act as a sculptor and position individuals in the group in relation to one another to create a still image).
􀁲 Thought-tracking (stopping individuals during an in-role activity and asking them to reveal their inner thoughts at that particular moment).
􀁲 Narrating (providing a spoken commentary that accompanies stage action, or a story being related by a character).
􀁲 Hot-seating (a technique used to deepen an actor’s understanding of a role. The individual sits in the ‘hot-seat’ and has questions !red at them that they then answer from the point of view of their character).
􀁲 Role play (an individual pretends to be someone else by putting themselves in a similar position and imagining what the person might say, think and feel).
􀁲 Cross-cutting (creating a scene(s) and then re-ordering the action by ‘cutting’ forwards and backwards to different moments).
􀁲 Forum-theatre (a scene is enacted and watched by the rest of the group. At any point in the drama, observers or actors can stop the action to ask for help or refocus the work. Observers can step in and add a role or take over an existing one).
􀁲 Marking the moment (having created a piece of drama work, individuals identify a significant moment in the piece. This can be done in discussion, marked by freezing the action, using captions, inner thoughts spoken out loud, using lighting to spotlight the
moment, etc. The moment will be significant for the individual in terms of revealing an understanding, an insight or evoking a feeling about the issue or idea being explored).

Class 3 - reflection

The lesson was not the most fun, sitting down the whole time, however it was educational, and it was useful to go over all the terms.  The warmup was hard to get my head around (I was out first all three times, every time with the word "bow"), I kept getting confused between the action of getting on the floor, the confusing bit I think being the word, bow, between both meanings: bowing, I connected with the getting on the floor; and the front of the ship.

Class 2:
Reflecting on what we did in class:

I didn't enjoy the still image that much, I'm not to good at standing in one position in one spot (but thats my body strength), nor am I too good at coming up with ideas on the spot.  The forum-theatre was hard to wrap my head around, coming up with words and actions on the spot, and having the constant threat that a character might be added or removed (it felt almost like a threat).  I did enjoy the narration, screaming at Kate, but I feel that it could have been done allot better, the narration felt like it was pushed in at the last moment (which thinking about it is exactly what happened) and the "children" could have had more to do rather than just hiding behind boxes.

However, overall the lesson was enjoyable.

First Post

First post on my drama blog!!!