Tuesday:
In the first lesson with Sharon we started off by walking around the space trying to give off the impression of being in the background and being neutral. We had discussed what elements were needed from an individual to achieve this effect in both standing and walking:
In standing what was helpful was to have feet shoulder width apart and both feet facing forward as though they were like train tracks. Along with this it is also helpful to keep shoulders relaxed, and to keep your body posture straight as though you were a puppet and there was a string coming from the top of your head keeping your spine straight. Keeping your facial expression neutral was also important.
In walking around it would be great to keep the strides you make with equal distance and to move smoothly and without making a great tone of twists and turns. Keeping your facial expression neutral just like standing stationary is needed along with keeping the energy you give with each stride to have not too much energy but enough.
After this we all took to different spaces in the room and performed three separate actions which we thought could represent the personality of our character, and also helped us understand more about our characters thus helping us become our characters. For Tybalt I felt as though it would be appropriate to pretend I am fighting with some of the peasant Montagues, smoking whilst contemplating who I will pick a fight with next, and sword fighting. I picked these because Tybalt is a very violent troublemaker who seems to think he is the best. Doing this exercise helped me as a young actor to further become my character and understand what kind of life he would be been living.
After that we began to add detail and improve the scenes after the party scene which is where we stopped and performed up to in our induction performance. One example of how we improved some scenes is with the scene at Friar Lawrances cell when the Friar talks to Romeo, and they sat so closely together which at a theatre wouldn't look as good as them sitting far apart. This ties in with what we learnt in Conway Hill what which to avoid the 'Kiss and Kill' which meant always avoid being too close to one another. This was a good tip as it refreshed our memories from before the half term to keep conscious of your surroundings and what spaces between actors in a theatre.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday we had just revised through everything from the very beginning and we practiced the pauses during the party scene when Romeo and Juliet speak and when Lord Capulet spoke. Abdul and I had also worked on improving the Choreography in our fight scene as it was too quick and uninteresting previously and we felt quite proud of what we had come up with. During the time we worked on the scene we needed to keep conscious that we will have an audience watching us, and so we had to use what we learnt of using stage space to further develope the fight.
Thursday:
On Thursday we had just revised through the first and second parts of the play twice over. We needed to make sure that the changes from one scene to another were more precise and clean, and that some actors put some more spirit into their scenes. One example is when I die and my parents see me dead, and instead of them just standing there saying lines it was important to deliver the lines with some meaning/story to them. I liked the tip because it gave me more insight as to how one is meant to really become their character which could be through imagining how the character would exactly act out in certain situations.
In the first lesson with Sharon we started off by walking around the space trying to give off the impression of being in the background and being neutral. We had discussed what elements were needed from an individual to achieve this effect in both standing and walking:
In standing what was helpful was to have feet shoulder width apart and both feet facing forward as though they were like train tracks. Along with this it is also helpful to keep shoulders relaxed, and to keep your body posture straight as though you were a puppet and there was a string coming from the top of your head keeping your spine straight. Keeping your facial expression neutral was also important.
In walking around it would be great to keep the strides you make with equal distance and to move smoothly and without making a great tone of twists and turns. Keeping your facial expression neutral just like standing stationary is needed along with keeping the energy you give with each stride to have not too much energy but enough.
After this we all took to different spaces in the room and performed three separate actions which we thought could represent the personality of our character, and also helped us understand more about our characters thus helping us become our characters. For Tybalt I felt as though it would be appropriate to pretend I am fighting with some of the peasant Montagues, smoking whilst contemplating who I will pick a fight with next, and sword fighting. I picked these because Tybalt is a very violent troublemaker who seems to think he is the best. Doing this exercise helped me as a young actor to further become my character and understand what kind of life he would be been living.
After that we began to add detail and improve the scenes after the party scene which is where we stopped and performed up to in our induction performance. One example of how we improved some scenes is with the scene at Friar Lawrances cell when the Friar talks to Romeo, and they sat so closely together which at a theatre wouldn't look as good as them sitting far apart. This ties in with what we learnt in Conway Hill what which to avoid the 'Kiss and Kill' which meant always avoid being too close to one another. This was a good tip as it refreshed our memories from before the half term to keep conscious of your surroundings and what spaces between actors in a theatre.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday we had just revised through everything from the very beginning and we practiced the pauses during the party scene when Romeo and Juliet speak and when Lord Capulet spoke. Abdul and I had also worked on improving the Choreography in our fight scene as it was too quick and uninteresting previously and we felt quite proud of what we had come up with. During the time we worked on the scene we needed to keep conscious that we will have an audience watching us, and so we had to use what we learnt of using stage space to further develope the fight.
Thursday:
On Thursday we had just revised through the first and second parts of the play twice over. We needed to make sure that the changes from one scene to another were more precise and clean, and that some actors put some more spirit into their scenes. One example is when I die and my parents see me dead, and instead of them just standing there saying lines it was important to deliver the lines with some meaning/story to them. I liked the tip because it gave me more insight as to how one is meant to really become their character which could be through imagining how the character would exactly act out in certain situations.
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