Lesson 3- 17/9/15

Lesson 3- 17/9/15

Unit 9: Devising Plays

ACCEPT+ADD:
Accept the idea and then add to it.


Types of Devising:
- Spontaneous- On the spot, developing skills and team work.
- Prepared- ready for the audience.
- Polished - polished to perfection



Improvisation rules:
1. Keep it simple.
2. Refreshing the facts - choosing a complete new direction when needed.
3. Get to know characters
4. Establish location/setting






We started off talking about the devising criteria and then the devising rules. After this we did some warming up excersizes before doing an improvisation excersize called what are you doing, I enjoyed this as it was more interactive then a exercise like traffic lights. Once we did this, we did  tag impro which is a fun game using improvisation and the add and accept rule, this was also effective as it helped us memorize/understand the add and accept rule more. We then spoke about the top tips for devising which were make sure you have contrasting storylines/narratives with some shared ideas, also to have relatable problems and to make sure that they are appropriate for the target audience. After this we recapped on our characters from Crabapple which was a good idea as some had forgotten them. We got into small groups or in my case a pairing with Jess. In our groups we discussed our characters and then refined them so my character is now Emma Charming she is ten years old, has magical powers and is a orphan as she lost her parents in the wizard war. She lives in the rose cottages by herself, has purple hair and she has an invisibility cloak so when people come looking for her or someone she can hide from them and won't get taken away, her biggest fear is confronting her problems.


In our groups we then had to devise small scenes with our characters. Jess character was called Maggie and she is 21 her fear was that she is scared of crossing roads as she has been hit by a car before so our scene was about Emma helping Maggie cross the road using her invisibility cloak to show no one was watching but in the end Maggie does it by herself. Our characters went together really well making our storyline quite effective as sometimes stories can be too random. At the end everyone did there pieces one by one but continuously, we included music in the background between scenes and then once everyone had performed we all moved around the room to the music and back to our starting positions to make it a full performance. The adding of music was really effective as it tied it all together creating more of a performance.