In today's lesson I worked on the opening scene, which me and my group decided would be in an office. Lady Macbeth and the witches start off as normal office women, but then we decided that they would go under the table and transform into witches. This allows for a moment in which the audience see these women transform and also it transforms into a whole new scene, which is in a club. After this we began to improv the following scene since we had not yet figured out all the lines. I made a decision that my character would be trying to 'seduce' Macbeth in order to get what she wants. I did this by making sure my proxemics to Macbeth were very close, I slowed down my talking a bit and and also slightly lowered my tone. I then had to move to where the witches where plotting against Macbeth and my tone had to be completely different; I was a lot louder and my body language was a lot bigger then it previously was. We also rehearsed the 'Letter' scene in our play, and we decided that it would look interesting if not only was Lady Macbeth reading the letter but she was reading long with the other witches, mocking him. I sounded very sarcastic when reading my lines of the letter, and I also decided that I would walk around stage and laugh as the other witches read the reminder of the letter.
We also made a decision to not include Macduff in our play, as there isn't enough people in our group and also we feared that the audience would get confused.
Hi Daniella,
ReplyDeleteYou make some very as astute and important comments in this blog but you are not not using Drama Terminology enough. You used the term "proxemics" referring to your movement and distance from one character to another and "Tone" when referring to your voice. This was great but what are the terms for " slowing down you talking" and " movement around the stage".? You also mention you were a lot louder but what term is used for that in Drama?
These are all methods of improving your written communication which will get you higher marks on your SWED.
Steven Kuleshnyk