In today's lesson we started off with a quick warm up. We did a speech exercise around the group, where we told different words to say followed by different actions. For example we had 'yeehaa' which was the word we used to pass along the group. We had other western-related words to say too. I found this exercise really fun and it just showed how quickly you change and adapt your tone of voice to fit a particular word or sound.
After the exercise we went straight onto rehearsing our devised piece. We began to fill in the missing scenes and decided it would be best if we had a script of Macbeth to read lines from, so I went to get the script to make the process easier. We began with a hotel scene, which I was not in, therefore I observed the scene and just gave my opinions. The group members who were doing the scene thought it best to improv the scene since we had not yet picked lines, I thought this worked really for the scene as all the emotion was really let out, which was needed for this particular scene. In keeping with the theme of deceit I suggested that it would be interesting if after Lady Macbeth's argument with Macbeth that we have her casting a spell on him. So that the audience know this woman is evil and supernatural.
Daniella,
ReplyDeleteA really well thought out and well written account of your process. What I particularly like is that it is in the first person and that you have given specific examples of your devising process and why you have made the choices you have. I will be giving you Question 2 of your SWED on Wednesday and I think a lot of what you have written is very relevant for for that question and will help you answer it. Just be aware that you need to talking about Two main areas now. One is that of your development and structure of the piece and the other is about evaluating what you are doing throughout the process. There is one or to small spelling errors in blog. Have a look and see if you can find them and please correct.
Steven Kuleshnyk