Jasmine homework

Individual Acting out with different comedic masks Individual acting out with different comedic masks: In this activity we were required to choose a mask from comedic theatre that ‘spoke to us’, and with this mask we must act out the character we believe the mask portrays and communicate it through the questions the teacher asks us. I personally found it hard to let the mask choose me, but I eventually chose one mask that struck me.
The ask looked very dopey and stupid in a sense because of the visual characteristics on his face like a large confronting nose, circle shaped face and small eyes. I took the role as a lonely young boy who is over excited by the overload in human interaction. With the questions that were asked like “how are you? “Are you excited? ” I involved the audience and expressed my enthusiasm by using a deep voice, wonky laugh and a heavy walk. I definitely enjoyed this opportunity especially when I realized the way this I took on the character was very similar to the intentions of the real character.
I pop to get the chance to complete this activity again with a new mask and see how my perspective of it compares to the main perspective. ‘ Tuesday 3rd June: Continued Individual Acting with comedic masks Wednesday 1 lath June: ABSENT – LEFT SCHOOL EARLY Wednesday 18th June: Warm Up: Being a restoration character Activity: Prime Minister’s Dinner and feedback Being a Restoration Character: In this warm up we were required to play a character from the restoration period.

We had to be emotionally invested in the character in order to influence the audience by our emotions. We were asked to play a character eke ‘a person late for work and gradually we were asked to increase the energy of our character if it means running faster or using our actions more vigorously. I particularly enjoyed this warm up because it helped me to understand the energy the restoration actors had to put in their performance and what they considered to be theatre suitable for the audience at the time.
I hope to warm up to this activity again so I can further improve my energy towards playing characters and emotions in Restoration theatre. Prime Minister’s Dinner and feedback In this activity the whole class was required to play an emotion and be involved in a ousted by the Prime Minister where they would showcase their emotion and make it evident to the audience. Each student was given an emotion (e. G. – gossipy, horny, rude etc. ) and had to perform their role as they arrived at the dinner.
I was fortunate enough to be the Prime Minister’s wife and my character was to spread rumors about the other guests. I definitely struggled with this task because it was very difficult to perform and be heard when the whole class was trying to achieve the same thing. After our performance Ms Weed agreed that we needed a system to aka sure we weren’t talking over one another. To improve this problem we made a circle in the middle of the drama space so the only people who should be talking are the ones in the circle while the other students are merely miming.
Ms also said that we were lacking energy with our characters and it was then it occurred to me how much more energy I would have to put into the performance even though I thought the energy I had put in initially was enough. I definitely enjoyed this activity and hope to do this again and further improve my skills with working as a class and my energy bevel when characterizing emotion in a restoration character.
Monday 23rd June: ABSENT – SICK Term 3- Monday 14th July – Theory work Activities: 4 vowels exercise – Clouds, Jungle, butter/tar and balloons Meditation 4 humors The Four Humors in Renaissance and Elizabethan time By this time the humors had become standardized as follows Body Humor Body substance produced by Element Qualities Complexion and Body type Personality Sanguine blood liver air hot and moist red-cheeked, corpulent amorous, happy, generous, optimistic, irresponsible Choleric yellow bile spleen fire hot and dry deed-haired, thin violent, vengeful, short-tempered, ambitious Phlegmatic phlegm lungs water cold and moist corpulent Sluggish, pallid, cowardly Melancholic black bile gall bladder earth cold and dry sallow, thin Introspective, sentimental, gluttonous Note: “lazy” is sometimes attributed to Phlegmatic [ref The Four Humors] and sometimes to Melancholies [ref The Four Humors] 4 vowels exercise – Clouds, Jungle, butter/tar and balloons In this exercise we were required to rotate around the classroom in a clockwise direction and act out different environments with each quarter we fall under.
The four quarters were clouds, Jungle, butter/tar and balloon and we had to have enough energy to mime the actions that would be conducted in this environment. As we rotated around the environments I particularly enjoyed performing in the Jungle environment and when the teacher asked for students to move into the quarter they liked performing the most I was the only one in the class to move into the Jungle environment and that particularly surprised me personally. I hope to complete the activity again to further improve my skills on miming an environment and using my body to display the emotions presented. Body Meditation In this activity the class conducted a body meditation to help us with connecting shapes with colors.
I the meditation the class was to lie down on the drama space floor and as the lights were turned off we would listen to M’s voice as she described colors and shapes while we had to focus on the shape/color to find what matched to it. In my experience with this activity I noticed that the circle shapes mostly lead to deep purples and blues whereas the sharp edged shapes were mostly reds and oranges. I really enjoyed this activity because I found it very relaxing and a good way o wind down after an active activity previously. I also enjoyed it because it helped me gain more understanding of Shakespearean work with color and emotions and the way his characters are able to visually perform that. I hope to complete this relaxing activity again to further development my understanding and connection of emotions and how I present them.
Wednesday 16th July – Activity: Watched Year 12 HOC practice Trials (Gave feedback for performance) – Late to class Mediation and Exploration with sounds: In this activity we explored Shakespearean interpretation of how sounds can effect and impact emotion as well as shapes and lour. We started by lying on the drama space floor and turning the lights off- after that Ms Weed began to teach us how to explore different sounds and vowels such as ‘O’. Personally when I expressed this sound I saw a deep purple/blue and an Oval like shape. This was defiantly contrasted when we had to sound out ‘D’, because this gave a hard sound I saw a dark green color and a square shape. Doing this exercise made me realizes not only how deep and contextually detailed Shakespearean teachings and works are but it also help me understand it better as I personally struggle grasping Shakespearean concept.
I hope to complete this relaxing exercise again to further understand and develop my understanding of Shakespeare and his works. Tuesday 22nd July – Role Scoring Questions- Viola (Twelfth Night) 1 . How does the title of the play relate to your character? Twelfth Night” is usually considered to be a reference to Epiphany, or the twelfth night of the Christmas celebration Unary 6). In Shakespearean day, this holiday was celebrated as a festival in which everything was turned upside down. This is much like the upside-down, chaotic world of Lariat in the play where Viola causes a love arrange to occur. 2. What is your character’s main sense of urgency? What strong impulse motivates your character to act? My character, Viola has a strong sense of urgency.
After the recent loss of her brother Viola has a missing male piece in her life and as she desperately searches for a replacement to this manly figure she will go to any extreme to achieve that. 3. If your character has a secret, what is it? My character holds a large secret that creates the main basis of the plot and storyline in the play. Her secret is that in the play she pretends to be a male to be closer to her rue love’ Duke Rosin who has a much higher status than her and is in love with Olivia 4. What rhythm might you associate with your character? I associate my character to have a smooth, calm and steady rhythm because I see her as someone who is calm under pressure and aware of her intentions and steady of her priorities. 5. What sound might you associate with your character?
I find my character to associate with a deep, calm sound because of the personality and her ability to play 2 different characters and attempt to keep her sense of identity at the same time. 6. What is your character’s master gesture? My characters master gestures towards the characters in the play is the fact that she caused such complications and a sense of confusion between the characters that it becomes evident that the biggest gesture Viola did was to give up her lifestyle and everything she knew to hide her identity and change herself for one man. 7. What is your character’s leading centre? (The head? The heart? The stomach? Something else? My characters leading centre would definitely be the heart, because not only to herself but also to the audience it’s the only thing that remains consistent tit the character because almost every aspect of her is hidden except her intentions and her heart. 8. What colors might you associate with your character? Why? I associate the character Viola with a deep purple/blue color. This is not only because that certain color resembles both genders but also because that color is relaxing and calm and easy to associate with. 9. What object might you associate with your character? Why? I associate a map with my character because I believe that the intentions the character is very clear and the route and road to achieve those intentions are also very clear.
And although the route to complete this goal is steep Viola is still willing to follow herself/the map to reach her destination of true love. 10. What animal might you associate with your character? Why? I associate my character with a spider, because although they are small and may seem insignificant there intentions are clear and they are a prime predator in the insect family. 1 1 . What are your character’s two primary senses? My characters two primary senses would be their voice and their ability to view problems and complications. 12. Does your character “mask”, or cover up, feelings and behaviors? If so, what does your character mask? My character covers up her feelings and her physical features.
She does this because her feelings that she has about Duke Rosin seem impossible to admit and confront about and to achieve this, she hides her female features to look like a man. 13. Does your character have a sense of humors? Is this sense of Humor used in a positive or negative way? My characters sense of humor is reflected primarily on dramatic irony- the scenes and problems that occur to my character hidden as a man are humorous because the actions are conducted as a female and because the audience only knows about it they become more emotionally invested in the character and are more compassionate towards the situation making it more funny. 14. In real life, would you be your character’s friend? Why or why not?
Yes, I would definitely be my characters friend in real life because I am inspired by her courage and bilabial u to be strong and stick up for her dreams, beliefs and aspirations even after she suffered a server tremor of the loss of her brother. She shows commitment and proves that she will go to any extent to conquer her dreams and I would love to round myself with that positive and inspiring influence. 15. What is your character’s most positive trait? My characters most positive trait is her persistence and courage to take risks to reach her goals. Hiding her identity to be with the man she loves could’ve lead to disastrous consequences, she not only would have suffered shame if her body was compromised but also the duke may not see it from Violas perspective and send her to Jail. 16. What is your character’s status in the world? Does your character have money or power?
My character has a low status in the world, this is the reason she goes to such extreme measures to be with Duke Rosin – because they both come from different walks of life and it is highly unlikely that the Duke will see Viola for who she truly is without being blinded by the hierarchy put out in society. 17. What are your character’s major wants and desires? My characters major wants and desires are to be with her true love Duke Rosin. The complications arise because the Duke is in love with Olivia who is a high status, rich lady. Viola will do anything to be with the Duke even if it is to become his servant and send messages to the one he loves without ever realizing her feelings for him. 8. What is your character’s major objective for this scene in the play in which he or she appears?
In the scene, the characters major objective is to analyses the problems she has caused and try to think of a solution where she is left with the Duke. It is also in this scene when she realizes how out of hand the problem has become and that its too hard a knot for me to untie’. 19. How does your character go about achieving these major objectives? My character attempts to achieve these major goals by disguising herself as a boy and gets a Job to work for Duke Rosin. She feels the need to hide who she is to achieve her goals. 20. What is your character’s life objective? My characters life objective is to gain the love and affection of Duke Rosin.
After losing her brother Viola missed a manly influence in her life and longed to fill that hole with Duke Rosin to whom she had always been in love with and had chosen to pursue her dream to be with him. 21 . How does your character go about achieving his or her life objective? My character achieves her objective by pretending she is a male so she can work for the Duke and be closer to him and one step closer to his love. 2. Has your character changed by the end of the play. If so, in what ways? No, my character hasn’t changed – in the end her intentions and goals were achieved when the Duke saw her for whom she truly was and accepted her as that, as well as the return of her brother whom she thought was lost.
FEATURES OF ELIZABETHAN THEATRE: Dramatically exciting Exploring humanity on a social / personal level (Renaissance) Poetic language Words were most important Rhythmic/ poetic dialogue Symbolic imagery Elevated tone of speaking/ voice Use of Aside (whispering to the audience) and Soliloquy (solo Speech, as though aligning/ thinking to yourself) Wednesday 23rd July: ABSENT Assessment review and recount: (27th August 2014) In term 3 our assigned assessment task was to create and present a performance essay based on the question ‘How is a historical style relevant to drama today I believe although this was a suitable question I personally struggled immensely with the performance and given the circumstances our group suffered I believe our performance doesn’t reflect our individual abilities. When we received the question our main idea was to write about how Shakespeare ND Restoration theatre were both connected with each other and how they have influence drama and theatre in our modern society.
But our main challenge was converting our ideas to a suitable performance that will not only appropriately answer the question but also to keep the audience entertained. It was also particularly challenging for our group because we had Heather absent for all of the lessons we had to work on the assessment – Heather played a prominent role in the script and I particularly struggled to change the lines and blocking with one less group member. After the script was complete I was definitely challenged by coming up with the blocking of the performance as I personally felt that our grouped lacked teamwork in presenting ideas and equally helping with the work load as well as committing to rehearsals.
It was challenging also to reach the standards that I know the group can achieve without the commitment and determination to learn lines and blocking before the deadline from every member. After our group seemed prepared for the performance we were notified that Heather’s lines and blocking must be included in the performance even if she was absent on the presentation day. This meant that we had to redelivers the script again as well as change the blocking to fit in another member. I definitely found this to be very confusing on our group as we were all confused about the lines and queues we were learning as it was constantly being changed. But luckily we received an extension on our assessment that definitely improved the group’s confidence in performing the piece without using the script.
I hope that in our upcoming performance we will be able to reflect to the audience the hard work that was put into the performance essay despite the complications hat occurred. In my opinion writing and performing the essay has been the most challenging drama assessment yet and I hope the next assessment will bring better luck and circumstances. In the future I hope to be more organized with the amount of work each person gets so that every member of the group will equally work on the assessment and one member wont be overloaded. I also now understand how much of a difference lack of energy can make to a performance and I hope that I have developed on these skills in not only increase the energy that I have but also my teammates which will evidently engage the audience better.