Presentation

Hi, I don't know how to attach my powerpoint on here or word doc from my presentation so here is my handout copied and pasted!

Preparation for Improvisation by Bronya McCarthy

Working with text.
1. Read the play carefully.
2. Make some notes on first impressions.
3. Analyse the text to find the Themes and Issues.
4. What are your Objectives?
5. Break down your objectives into Units.
6. Justify your choices to support your thought process which will give your character a sense of Truth.

Write the script in a way that you understand, put your own interpretation to it but remember your responsibility to the playwright.

Verbing and Mood.
Verbing implies how the line should be said and what action should be expressed.
Mood, analyse the shifts in emotion throughout the lines to create the emotional journey and indicators of rhythm and pace.

Uta Hagen’s “Nine Questions”

Answer the following questions for character study in order to define the role with as many specifics as possible. Consider these questions as research questions and continue to add answers and details as the character is explored and rehearsed.

1. WHO AM I? (All the details about your character including name, age, address, relatives, likes, dislikes, hobbies, career, description of physical traits, opinions, beliefs, religion, education, origins, enemies, loved ones, sociological influences, etc.)

2. WHAT TIME IS IT? (Century, season, year, day, minute, significance of time)
3. WHERE AM I? (Country, city, neighborhood, home, room, area of room)

4. WHAT SURROUNDS ME? (Animate and inanimate objects-complete details of environment)

5. WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES? (Past, present, future and all of the events)

6. WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP? (Relation to total events, other characters, and to things)

7. WHAT DO I WANT? (Character's need. The immediate and main objective)

8. WHAT IS IN MY WAY? (The obstacles which prevent character from getting his/her need)

9. WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT? (The action: physical and verbal, also-action verbs)

Suck the text dry of all that it offers
Stick to the facts for a strong base to let imagination grow!
Collect Information from sources
Research

Exploration of characters

Get inside the character

Observation! Every day life is all around us; look at people and see how they behave! This is a great resource for character development.
Inspiration!
Be inspired by everything around you and be open to anything. Say yes!

Setting and Blocking
What is around you? What are your obstacles? What is in your way?
Where are you going?


Improvisation
Who are you speaking to? How are they responding to you?
Can you push their emotions or do you need to give them more space? Do they look bored? What can you do to gain their attention and keep it?
What will you do if you freeze up?
The more you relax, the more your mind will open and flow with ideas. Freezing up is common and happens in everyday life, something will eventually spark an idea.

If you know your character inside out then you can be spontaneous but remember other actors around you may need particular cues from you as they are not inside your head, they need to respond to you.

Be creative. If you have a pen, don’t just write with it, it can be anything you want it to be, as long as you believe it then others will too.

If something goes wrong, unless there are health and safety issues or a time you can purposely break the fourth wall and add for example: comedy, it is imperative to stay in character and include the problem into the piece.


Suggested books by me:

Keith Johnstone. Impro: Improvisation and the theatre. Methuen 2007.
Viola Spolin. Improvisation for the theatre, Third Edition. Northwestern University Press. 1999. (great for theatre games and focus)

Hope this was of some use!

Thank you for reading Ü

Unit 3 nearly over...

well done all for your presentations. Well prepared, interesting and diverse. Can you please hand in your reports, hard copy to Katie by end of day Friday. Remember to reference correctly and include bibliography. 1,000 - 1,500 words.

It has been a real pleasure to work with you on Disco Pigs. I learnt a lot and enjoyed the process and the shows greatly.
Here's to unit 4 starting on Tuesday. My advice would be start research earlier, use it and share it during the process and commit to physical exploration even more.

Have a great weekend

Alex's Radio Interview - Unit 3 Presentation

Apologies for not being able to upload the audio file on its own; you'll just have to make do with also seeing me too, circa a few years ago.

this is sophie !

hey everyone i finally learnt how to post ish ! however i have momentarily forgotten my log in details :( woops :) x

presentation

Im doing my presentation on creating the relationship anyone got anything i could put init

I am bringing in my laptop but will need to connect to internet does anyone else?

Presentation

I'm doing my presentation about charactorisation. Does anyone else need a computer and know how there getting it?

For my presentation I am talking about the use of voice and what I did to change it. I am relating it to stanislavski's emotional memory as what happened in the rehearsal helped me perform as I remembered what I was feeling. Paige

First ever post!!

During my presentation im going to explore other playwrights who are still very popular in modern England but the speech is not easily understandable to audiences!! And tell you all about stuff like that.
STEVE!!! Woop Woop!!

unit 3 presentations

still to hear from some of you about your plans for this. If you are not in the morning group then please go to the theatre at 10am for silks. you will break at 12.30 and swap to presentations in the theatre bar. If you need computers, internet etc please let me know asap or sort it yourselves first thing. we need to be really strict with time keeping.

thanks

Unit 3 Presentations - Acting
1	10.15	Alistair
2	10.25	Gwen
3	10.35	Hania
4	10.50	George
5	11.05	Sophie
6	11.20	Shaun
7	11.35	Bronya
8	11.50	Stacey
9	12.10	Nicole
10	12.20	Nathaniel
		LUNCH
11	13.30	Steven
12	13.40	Lucy
13	14.00	Sam
14	14.15	Paige
15	14.30	Antonio
16	14.45	Yiannis
17	15.00	Alex
18	15.15	Grace
19	15.30	Samantha
20	15.45	Sinead
21	16.00	Katya

Also do we have to Harvard reference any quotes or images??

Presentation

Ive decided to do my presentation on our promenade show im going to include...

- sight specifics

-breaking of fourth wall

-semiotics

-expressionism

-a company example who focuses on promenade

I hope this is enough to talk about?

Is it possible to get photos from the show??

presentation

ok so i am going to do a presentation on me and stacie's scene where i will show what we first had and how we developed it into the final product. i will also be showing what we had to do to change it into a promenade performance and ideas behind.

Presentation!!

I was thinking of doing my presentation from another point of view. As I don't do power points and technology, I thought I'd do it as a character teaching a class about what they learnt so that the students (audience) can feel like they are really being taught. I will be talking about, as Hania is too, about the female partnership and how it made it different for our scenes and the play, as we showed the friendship and closeness of Pig and Runt. And also how the scenes progressed over the time period after learning about more practitioners and new techniques.

Presentation

For my presentation i am planning on focusing on the process and development of the realtionship between pig and runt but played as both female. I wan to look at other plays similar to this as well as when developing the characterization of a male character developing into a female character by looking at other examples when, female actresses have had to play male characters for example Viola in Twelfth Night

Presentation

I'm gonna look at the developments of the staging of one of my scenes with Nicole. Sort of a chronological type sequence of events showing how we moved through different ways of blocking from the first bits of the rehearsal process, to the two different stagings of the show itself!

Presentation Plan

For my presentation, I'm planning on focussing it on methods of characterisation as well as looking at my first scene with Grace and seeing how different practitioners' methods and theories apply to it.

Ideas for presentation

My idea for the presentation: is that I'm going to focus my attention on the characterisation of Runt and, how I looked at my monologues and how different tutors gave me different techniques to use.

DATES unit 3

Presentations Thursday 19th January 10am
10 mins 


Reports due in end of day Friday 27th January. (1000 words minimum)


You are in college on Thursday 19th for presentations then again Tuesday 24th January to begin Unit 4!

Creative writing classes

Creative writing classes run by Jac Cattaneo at Northbrook every wednesday at 4pm for an hour.

Welcome back for the new year!  This term we have some very exciting developments for the Creative Writing group.  Our joint funded project with the University of the Creative Arts will begin on Wednesday 1^st February with the first of two fully paid-for trips to the V & A in London.  You will explore some hidden spaces inside the museum with a group of uca students, generating  artwork, poems and stories.  The outcome will be an on-line exhibition at the end of the year.

To find out more, please come along to the group on Wednesday 11^th January , which will be on the theme of ‘Journals and Journeys’.  The following week at 4pm on Thursday 19^th we are lucky to have the painter and poet Gary Goodman running a session on using personal experience to generate work.  This term will also have a session on dramatic dialogue from the playwright and director Jon Armstrong (date tba)

See you on Wednesday!

Best wishes,

Jac

First show done.

What worked today in the show?

What have you learnt?

Day before the show

Are you making any discoveries about the play and your character?
Make sure that you don't go on stage tomorrow speaking lines you don't understand.

Please post on what you are learning on the run up to the show.

Remember to invite any student friends to the performances!

notes from friday run

• alistair and sinead; turn fun chase to serious
• lucy choose direction more specifically.
• nat & paige good but not the slap - too much
• stacey straight in to dance with antonio
• sinead start script sooner. to audience
• alistair dont cross behind alex
• grace choose to be called runt; why. bigger moment
• when alex say pig, all snort
• hania on 'light of my life' move sam somewhere else, change moment
• more fun drinking game for sam and hania
• good fight alex then turn it to cowboy shootout
• lucy go to people to freeze them more. judge clothes etc
• every night promotion night much bigger.
• lucy come to fron audience are students
• george change when talking to us or runt.
• spot on lucy as girl; pig talks about in club; bit confusing
• yiannis & gwen need blocking
• sophie come in early and take gwen's line ' i don't know'
• katya, diction!
• yiannis and stacey too much on floor, change blocking 
• katya and anthony come in to dance
• sophie scene to block
• sam & hania, chair scene needs cutting i think.
• use mum device again to change ackward atmosphere.
• pamela anderson moment, paige appears ready in dress and sinead similar.

nearing show week....

Hello all, good day today i'm sorry we didnt get all of the time to block. If anyone hears from Steve can you please email me.
Try to be in on Monday as we only have a little time in the morning before we spent the rest of the time in the theatre plotting and there are a couple of scenes particularly that need work. i will post notes here from tomorrow from today's run so please check in.
Thanks Alex for the lyrics and please learn them! Nat and Sam please learn extra lines in case you need to stand in.

Have a great weekend.

Vanessa

Danny Boy - Melody and Lyrics

Here are the lyrics and melody for Danny Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-gmj5qMjM

You can also find the lyrics on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boy, just in case you'd prefer to have them all in front of you at one sitting. Bast of luck for getting it learnt.

Alex D

Is anyone else not able to upload there essay via blackboard ?? happy new year too

Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone hope you had a good break and excited about next term. Please be in for Thursday 10am. Please wear jeans and black top. They need obviously to be comfortable to move in. Also make sure that you know lines really well as we have to spend a lot of time doing tech runs in the theatre and less on running show for actors.

I hope your unit 2 are going well; remember deadlines for those and that they need to be submitted via blackboard.

Take care and see you on Thursday.