Thursday 19th January
Today we were focusing on improvisation. We looked at a type of improvisation which we haven’t covered yet in this academic year – role swap in improvisation.
The first task that we were set was an improvised scene set in a hospital. I was acting as a patient and Danielle was acting as a friend from school who had come to visit me. After a few minutes the roles would swap so that Emily would become the patient and Angel would become the visitor. Role swapping can be quite difficult because the same atmosphere and characters must be played otherwise the scene could go completely off track. However, we managed to carry out the role swap successfully as the atmosphere of the scene did not change. Here is a video of us carrying out the exercise:
We then carried out another role swap exercise but this time Danielle and Angel were the beginners on stage. This scene was set in a girl’s bedroom and the 2 girls are getting ready to go to a party. A few minutes into the scene, the roles swapped so I was then playing the part of Angel and Emily was then playing the role of Danielle. Here is a link to the video of us carrying out the exercise:
The last exercise that we carried out was acting out the story of ‘Cinderella’ in the style of a soap opera. This also included role swapping for a few of the characters. This was an improvised task and we were only given a small amount of time to decide who was going to play which character/characters. Here is a link to the video of us carrying out the exercise:
The feedback which we were given by our lecturer was that although it was a good improvised version of Cinderella, it wasn’t really in the style of a soap opera. To make it more in the style of a soap opera, we could have made it more dramatic and a bit more lively.
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