The exercises we done in class today helped us to
develop our East End accents. The first warm-up game we played was called Zip
Zap Bong. With this game we included our East End accent. Everyone talked like
they were from East London which helped us to practise our accents for our
performance. Another exercise we done was more of an improvisation game. In this game two people were given a scene to
improvise. This was a good way to test our improvisation skills however our
scenes mainly consisted with the environment of East London streets.
Later on in the lesson we were put into groups of
4. I was put into a group with Logan, Thiago and Stacey. We were given Tale 1 which was about a young,
18 year old mixed race boy, and we had to draw a figure of a person on an A3
piece of paper and we had to write down all about the boy’s emotions,
personality. We learnt that this boy is 18 years old he is mixed race and is
very hot. He has a good body and he is sporty, he has spiky hair and a bit of
dark stubble. He is unemployed, however he does go to college, but he stills
prefers to go and play football of play station. However this boy had a dark
and secretive side as well, when he lived at home his dad used to smoke and was
abusive towards him. So he hates cigarettes because they remind him of home. He
moved out of home at a young age, he became very independent and grew in to a
scary, hard character who could stick up for himself. He looks like a scary
character who no one should mess with however deep down he is a broken child
who needs to be loved because he wasn’t loved in his childhood.
With this tale our group had to make up 4 images
that we repeated to describe our characters emotions and physical descriptions.
We included 2 physical descriptions in our piece of theatre and 2 emotions. Our
homework helped us with this exercise because we got a better understanding of
East London streets, so we could include our research on our character because
we could relate it to the research we gathered.
With our character we included his cockney accent.
When we acted his emotion we made sure we showed it through our body language and
facial expressions. This helped the audience understand the feelings the
character was feeling, including height and levels in our piece also helped
give the audience a better understanding of what we were trying to perform.
When we showed the emotion of insecurity and depression we made our levels
lower and isolated.
All of the class groups performed their pieces to
the class; my favourite group was Amaia’s. This is because even though Amaia
(small and a girl) played the part of the boss man (tall and a man) she still
used body language, voice and facial expressions to show the sex of the person
and the personality of the man, that he was in charge of everyone and he was
the boss of everyone in the town. It was
effective because you could see clearly who was in charge of the scene and who
was the man person (even if they weren’t talking or didn’t use words) we would
still know Amaia was the boss through her body and face. There wasn’t too much
going on in the scene either it was easy to understand and it was quite
comedic.
This scene helped me get a better understanding
of the man in Tale 3. I learnt that this man was in charge of everyone;
everyone was scared of him and done what he said when he told them to, no one
back chatted and no one argued because they knew he would beat them up. He was
scary and he likes his character too much, he had a big ego and was filthy
rich.
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