The purpose of that is to get to know names and something about each person. Understand how pantomime and gestures communicate ideas. Develops Action.
- Gather students in a circle. Have each student say their name and do a gesture for each syllable. The action should be simple and can demonstrate a hobby, interests they have or something they do every day. Example: I say Marion, and because I like boxing, I will throw some punches in the air to demonstrate that I like boxing.
- Then, each student says their name individually and demonstrates the gesture and everyone repeats the name and gesture.
Repeat the process around the circle until all have shared their name and gesture.
Tarkan done rehearsals warm ups for about 5 minutes as well.
1. Tongue twisters;
The purpose of tongue twisters is to concentrate on the use of the articulation muscles and tools in the mouth.
He used - Red leather Yellow Leather.
2. Stretches
Stephan done a game called grandma footsteps.
One person is chosen to be the grandma. That person then has to face a wall at one side of the playing area, away from the other players. When the game starts, all the other players have to try and sneak up on grandma without being seen or heard. At round times throughout the game, grandma has to turn around. Any player she sees moving she sends back to the start. She then turns back around and you can start moving towards her again. To win the game a person needs to tap the grandma while she's the wall. This person weather is a boy or a girl is grandma next round.
The next day we done the same thing as we done yesterday and we were adding extra games or physical warm up or anything to see what the best thing is for our warm up. All workshops were pretty much the same therefore we wanted to be different and try something different from the other workshops. Tarkan came with an idea, of creating around 3/4/ groups and giving them a movie title and for the group to act it out their best and then the other group to guess which movie it is. A lot of people concentrate on this particular game because its really interesting and joyful to play.
For the backstage work, I was chosen to do Vocal warm up and Hair and MAKE UP designer.
Vocal warm ups are really helpful because being an actor means having a full control not only of your body, but also your vocal chords. Actors who have great potential must learn to command attention or power through their voice. They must understand how to control their voices.
Each rehearsals I will start the group with a vocal warm up, some which were;
Exercise 1; ' The Hummmmmm'
This is one of the most efficient vocal warm ups, and I
personally do this before any speaking engagement. Sit with your back straight, and take a deep inhale that expands your diaphragm. During your exhale, vocalize the sound 'hummmmmm' until you have no more breath. Repeat 5 times.
Exercise 2; Deep Breathing
Deep breath in and hold
Exhale to a count of 10
Repeat
Deep breath in and hold
Drop over like a puppet
Exhale and come back up to standing position on a count of 10
Exercise 3; Tongue Twisters
Be sure to sat this in only one breath, but never go faster than you are able to go and still keep the clarity of each word in the phrase.
'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked,
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
'Bobby Bibbit bought a bat,
Bobby Bibbit bough a ball,
With the bat, Bob banged the ball,
Banged the ball against the wall.
Exercise 4; Chewing Game
Everyone stands in a circle and imagines they are chewing.
Give instructions; That they should work their jaw in conjunction to whatever's in their mouth; most of the time chew option is a bubble gum.
- Tarkan was the rehearsal manager as well as workshop manager.
- Isaiah was time manager/ keeping. He was keeping the time and therefore we don't run out from rehearsals.
- Brunilda was the rehearsal director and transport director.
- Stephanie was the contact manager, rehearsals manager and hair and make up designer.
- Dulce was the script writer, workshop director along side being the head director for two weeks.
When we came from the two weeks holiday, we shared what we done and what we enjoyed during the two weeks. We sat in a circle and we started talking what we done during the holiday. Everyone said what they done in a circle and when it came to me, I didn't do much, only practiced a little bit of free running and parkour. This was a little improvisation to get us concentrated on our workshop. My group then acted what we done on our holiday, as part of the workshop and we then played the splat game and wink murder.
Wink Murder is a fun game in a secret 'killer' winks at people in the eye in order to get them eliminated. Try to identify who the wink murder is before he murders/eliminates everyone.
Each day and week we would be rehearsing with our workshop and getting everything ready and the way we would want them to be. We would run through our workshops with other class friends and prepare ourselves and make everything better. Everyone who participated in our workshop really enjoyed their time and wanted to do it again which we as a group were really happy.
Our workshops have been gradually improving since the first time we started doing them till the end when we had to perform our workshop and Devised play in front of year 9's in a school in Canning Town.
We have changed a lot of different things in workshops, mostly different games. We chose the best games that would make the students concentrate and something that was similar to our Devised play. Each workshop we have performed better than the last one, because we have had enough time to practise our parts in the workshop. We had more than enough time to complete our workshops, and have everything ready for the major performance at the school.
The workshop in the school went really well. There were a lot of students that weren't concentrating. When we started playing games, everyone was really interested in the game and they wanted to play more.
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