BTEC Perfoming Arts - Logs

In this hour long lesson, we explored an abstract, physical way of presenting emotion through sequence. We began the lesson in groups creating a 30 second scene involving three characters: one that felt a need to be close to another particular character, one that felt a strong fear towards a particular character and one that felt fear in regards to the fact that another character was becoming so uncomfortably close to them, breaking boundaries.We thought we would show these relationships in the form of a wedding dress fitting. The bride-to-be on riser, anxiously smoothing out creases on her dress whilst one of the male wedding guests keeps becoming awkwardly close to her, compelled by a need to be with her and then slightly in the background was the seamstress who had a very strong fear of the bride-to-be and an obvious anxiety regarding the dress. Although this scene was initially realistic, the emotions of each character were still incredibly evident through both the dialogue (or l...

In this lesson, we explored the ways an audience can be affected by the acknowledgment of the fact that the characters they are watching are just actors performing on a stage. Discussing whether it detracted from the effect of the drama or added another complex layer to it, as it forces the audience to not only invest themselves into the fictional character in the show but the real life person behind that. We started the lesson by simply creating a 15 second scene with a small group of 3/4 in which we were actors entering a rehearsal spaced preparing for rehearsals, with stretches and light conversation. Each character created was very similar and had similar actions to correspond with that. We were then asked, in our groups, to add another layer to our characters. To think of the actor's emotions , to think of what had happened previously that day, their journey to the space and how that would affect their body language  and general mood as they entered the performance space. ...