Thursday 10th November
In today’s lesson we were focusing on improving our improvisation techniques.
To start off the lesson Danielle, Emily and Callum each ran their own warmup exercise. The first warmup exercise which was led by Danielle was rubber chicken. For this activity you start with your right hand in the air and shake it 8 times and you do the same with the left hand. Then you shake the right foot 8 times and then shake the left foot 8 times. You then repeat this again but the amount of times that you shake the hands or feet half’s each time. The second warmup activity was led by Emily which was ‘What happened to Maria?’ We have carried out this exercise in previous lessons. This activity is all about copying internation. The last warmup activity was led by Callum and this was ‘da, da, didily, da’. For this exercise you go around the circle and each person has to say either ‘da or ‘didily’ however there is a pattern which is ‘da, da, didily, da, didily, didily, didily, da’. If you say ‘da’ you have to reach up and if you say ‘didily’ you have to reach down. If someone messes up the pattern, then they are out of the game.
For the rest of the lesson we were looking at short improvisations. Cara, our lecturer, set us the task to create a short improvisation with the theme of bullying. We were sorted into pairs and we were given 5 minutes to plan what we were going to do. Me and Callum decided to do an improvisation based on a teacher and a student. The student was bullying the teacher in several different ways for example her name and how she looked. The feedback that we were given after the performance was that it was a good performance and it worked really well because it showed a different type of bullying that not many people are aware of.
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