Off text improvisation is acting without a script or any directions. In our lesson we did a scenario of a counselling session after kojo had stabbed the man. I found the improvisation really useful because you were able to think of body movements, reactions and what your character would say. For example as rosa I would imagine her as a somewhat self centred person who may be bored at a meaning like this as you would have to listen to other people's problems. Because of this I would often yawn and fidget during the improvisation.
I thought Jacob and Rosie did very good performances. This was because they were very consistent in their characters, this made their performances very eye catching and they developed their characters very well, especially with the tone of voice Jacob put on.
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Diary entry - improvisation meeting
The meeting was full of people going on about how hard their lives our, at least some of them have money and family, at least they don't have to worry about where their going to be this time next year. I could be dead, I could be living on the streets with no money and nowhere to go.
Sure this man has died because Kojo stabbed him, what an idiot does he not realise what their going to do to him, but instead of the people in the meeting doing anything to help him, about it their all just sitting here talking looking for sympathy, well not me see I have a life away from all this I don't need to be dragged into something I didn't do or had no part of.
This Group leader is just like all councilors and social workers, they just want their pay check they don't care about you or your problems. Going to that meeting was a waste of my time.
The meeting was full of people going on about how hard their lives our, at least some of them have money and family, at least they don't have to worry about where their going to be this time next year. I could be dead, I could be living on the streets with no money and nowhere to go.
Sure this man has died because Kojo stabbed him, what an idiot does he not realise what their going to do to him, but instead of the people in the meeting doing anything to help him, about it their all just sitting here talking looking for sympathy, well not me see I have a life away from all this I don't need to be dragged into something I didn't do or had no part of.
This Group leader is just like all councilors and social workers, they just want their pay check they don't care about you or your problems. Going to that meeting was a waste of my time.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
what do other people say about my character?
Hassan page 27 - 'shes from Iraq too, were all good looking in Iraq'
not much is said about Roza, i think this is because she has quite a hard exterior in the play and is quite feisty so people may be afraid of angering her. Its only really Hassan that mentions her and i thunk this is because they are from the same country so he can understand her and knows her enough to annoy her.
What does my character say about herself?
Page 31 - 'I remember the bombs'
Roza dosen't say a lot about herself, i think this because of her past and her hard exterior that she has built up. we can see from the quote that she has a lot of bad memories and maybe she is still haunted by them and fears that if she lets something out she will remember them even worse.
What does my character say about others?
Page 27 - to hassan 'yeah right' replying to him saying hes good looking.
Page 27 - 'I'd rather fuck a fish hassan'
Page 27 - to Kojo 'hes cute'
Page 27 - about Kojo 'he doesn't talk much. hey.'
Page 31 - to translator 'why doesn't she shave her legs, her legs are hairier than a gorilla'
Page 47 - about Kojo 'hes a kid hes younger than me'
Rosa says a lot about others, i think this shows how she speaks her mind completely and isnt afraid of what others will say about her. Also she says a lot to hassan i think this is because they speak the same language which means they are able to have a lot of banter with each other.
Hassan page 27 - 'shes from Iraq too, were all good looking in Iraq'
not much is said about Roza, i think this is because she has quite a hard exterior in the play and is quite feisty so people may be afraid of angering her. Its only really Hassan that mentions her and i thunk this is because they are from the same country so he can understand her and knows her enough to annoy her.
What does my character say about herself?
Page 31 - 'I remember the bombs'
Roza dosen't say a lot about herself, i think this because of her past and her hard exterior that she has built up. we can see from the quote that she has a lot of bad memories and maybe she is still haunted by them and fears that if she lets something out she will remember them even worse.
What does my character say about others?
Page 27 - to hassan 'yeah right' replying to him saying hes good looking.
Page 27 - 'I'd rather fuck a fish hassan'
Page 27 - to Kojo 'hes cute'
Page 27 - about Kojo 'he doesn't talk much. hey.'
Page 31 - to translator 'why doesn't she shave her legs, her legs are hairier than a gorilla'
Page 47 - about Kojo 'hes a kid hes younger than me'
Rosa says a lot about others, i think this shows how she speaks her mind completely and isnt afraid of what others will say about her. Also she says a lot to hassan i think this is because they speak the same language which means they are able to have a lot of banter with each other.
Punctuation
In our exercise punctuation dancing I was given the character Ara to explore. I found she uses a lot of '...' when speaking to others, I think this shows that she really thinks about what she's going to say before she says it because of her caring nature. She never really uses exclamation marks which shows that she doesn't get herself worked up easily and instead rationally thinks about situations. When she is speaking to Kojo she uses a lot of question marks, this could be because of their language barrier, but I think it is mainly to do with her wanting to know more about him because she really loves him.
I found this exercise very useful because I discovered more about her personality and how she isn't the most excitable kind but is very caring. Also it was interesting to learn how much punctuation in the script can tell you about a character/characters and their relationship with others as well as their personality.
In our exercise punctuation dancing I was given the character Ara to explore. I found she uses a lot of '...' when speaking to others, I think this shows that she really thinks about what she's going to say before she says it because of her caring nature. She never really uses exclamation marks which shows that she doesn't get herself worked up easily and instead rationally thinks about situations. When she is speaking to Kojo she uses a lot of question marks, this could be because of their language barrier, but I think it is mainly to do with her wanting to know more about him because she really loves him.
I found this exercise very useful because I discovered more about her personality and how she isn't the most excitable kind but is very caring. Also it was interesting to learn how much punctuation in the script can tell you about a character/characters and their relationship with others as well as their personality.
Given circumstances
This picture shows the given circumstances for our play fugee. Some key ones we wrote down were:
- ara and kojo love each other
- hassan and roza speak the same language
- all of kojo's family are dead
- the social workers don't believe Kojo is 14
We thought these were very important in the play as they set the mood and relationships characters may have with each other on stage as well as their back stories for example kojo's family not being alive.
Other things we put down we're
- kojo witnessed his fathers death - I think this is very important in the play because it affects his attitude to violence and his trust towards people because he has witnessed something so terrible.
This exercise helped me with understanding how our play will look on stage and who would fit each roles. I could do this by looking at where the play was set as well as characteristics of the characters such as Chung having 'strong arms'.
What we did in the lesson - given circumstances and workshop auditions.
In today's lesson we began by learning about given circumstances in fugee. As a group we got a lot of circumstances down such as Kojos family being dead and rosa and hassan speaking the same language.
Finding all the given circumstances was very useful as it set out the structure of the play for me. Knowing where it was set, the characters backgrounds and what they look like created a strong image of my mind of how our play may turn out, who would Suit each part and how we could stage it to give our audience the best experience we could. It was also useful in that we could see what other characters had said about each other and themselves because this gave me a greater understanding how characters may act with each other on stage as well as what their personalities may be like.
After we began our workshop auditions, I really enjoyed this part of the lesson because it was interesting to see what some of the scenes may look like on stage as well as how people in the class worked together and how they chose to play the role.
I was happy with my audition and think I put 100% of effort into it. I sometimes found it hard in Reading the scenes as because it was the first time for everyone acting it through it was hard to bounce off one another because everyones face was either in their script or we were too busy concentrating on the lines to work out how we would move ourselves on stage as well. If I could do it again I would definitely spend less time worrying about the script and more on my body language and interaction with other actors on stage.
In today's lesson we began by learning about given circumstances in fugee. As a group we got a lot of circumstances down such as Kojos family being dead and rosa and hassan speaking the same language.
Finding all the given circumstances was very useful as it set out the structure of the play for me. Knowing where it was set, the characters backgrounds and what they look like created a strong image of my mind of how our play may turn out, who would Suit each part and how we could stage it to give our audience the best experience we could. It was also useful in that we could see what other characters had said about each other and themselves because this gave me a greater understanding how characters may act with each other on stage as well as what their personalities may be like.
After we began our workshop auditions, I really enjoyed this part of the lesson because it was interesting to see what some of the scenes may look like on stage as well as how people in the class worked together and how they chose to play the role.
I was happy with my audition and think I put 100% of effort into it. I sometimes found it hard in Reading the scenes as because it was the first time for everyone acting it through it was hard to bounce off one another because everyones face was either in their script or we were too busy concentrating on the lines to work out how we would move ourselves on stage as well. If I could do it again I would definitely spend less time worrying about the script and more on my body language and interaction with other actors on stage.
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