Thursday 27th November 2014
This lesson we focused on Tale 8 and were put into groups of
5. My group was Raneesha, Zac, Chris and Natasha. Tale 8 was about a girl
called Michelle who liked to be alone, she was the lioness of the town and no
one messed with her, her place where she liked to stay by herself where nobody
went was down a dark alley way surrounded by tall dark buildings. We had to
highlight all the point is Tale 8 that described the weather, atmosphere or
location. Examples of words we
highlighted were words like “death”, “eerie”, “hailstones”, “thunder”, “darkness”, “alley” and “tension”. After we highlighted all the words in the
Tale, we decided on a scene to develop it further. We chose the stanza “Imagine.
There’s a clap of thunder. And suddenly
you’re in the wrong place. It’s early. Eerie. Just before sunrise. And hailstones bombard the darkness.” We were asked to focus on the weather,
atmosphere and buildings to create our scene. We made sure our stanza had a lot
of keywords that we could develop. For example; “thunder”
and “hailstones”.
We then shared our work with the class, my favourite group
was Michelle’s group because their piece was really effective and created a lot
of tension inside of me. The sounds they used were quite minimal; they had a
narrator reading the stanza whilst others made the occasional bang or thud. Which
was good because it wasn’t too much noise so it made the scene quite
mysterious. The movement was slow and this was effective because it created
tension and suspense. They also moved as one, they looked like they were the
alley-way and they were the buildings and including this, made me feel like I
was in the alley-way with Michelle. The work kind of made me feel sorry for
Michelle because she was so lonely surrounded by not people but litter and tall
dark buildings, it made me feel isolated and alone. Further developments for
this group would include adding slow motion to each transition made the piece
even more believable and effective. Hardly any groups done the same thing,
mostly people chose different stanzas to work on and every group had a new and
different piece to share, I liked this because it showed me that everyone has a
different view on the Tale. It definitely has an amazing effect on the piece
than just reading it. Just reading it without adding any acting I’d say would
be quite boring and it wouldn’t interest me but acting it out in a more
abstract way and including sound effects really catches my eye and I am
instantly more captivated the just reading the text.
After that exercise we moved into another group of 4, and
read Tale 6. This Tale was about a man and a woman who were talking about their
life in a pub, however this man is very scary and everyone is scared of him, he
is obviously violent as it describes in the text, however he has a soft spot
for this lady and they talk about his past and hers. We had to draw the outline
of the man and write down all the emotions and feelings he has inside of him as
well as his appearance and what other people say about him. We developed the
scene where it talks about him getting done for dealing the day before his
daughter birth; this was an effective part to develop because it contained a
lot of emotion that we could show through our body language. We used skills
such as; body language, facial expressions and vocals. Our character had a
harsh voice to show his power and anger inside of him however he had moments of
cracking and becoming his softer and caring side where his voice changed and
became less harsh and his body became less broad and became more shy and
closed.
We then shared our work with the class and the other group’s
performances were great! My favourite group was Gloria’s group because their
piece was very effective they developed the stanza where the narrator is
telling us that he doesn’t want the man to hit the woman and telling us how
much tension there was in the pub at that moment. At the beginning of their
work I was instantly drawn. It started off silent with only the voice of the
narrator talking, four people were walking around Amaia who was stood up on a
chair- obviously playing the man’s character- this was obvious to me because their
use of levels. Because Amaia was standing on the chair it showed me her
character had the higher status and was in control and more important than the
others. This scene helped me get a better understanding of the man in the scene
because it told me about how he has a temper and is the boss.
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