We started off by splitting into two groups, mermaids and Pirates. I am in pirates. We then had to come up with four movements on our own that fit with the stereotype of our characters. For mine I did one where I was holding my pirate hat, one where i was stabbing someone with my sword, steering the ship and looking out at sea. We then got into twos/threes within our groups and showed our different movemnets to one another, once we did that we had to combine them all to create a little sequence and then presented to the rest of our groups. Doing all of these excersizes worked well as it really helps us improve our movement vocab. It was easier for the pirates to create movement as pirates have a lot of stock movement.
After we created the movement we started on creating characters, this was fun and also easier due to the stereotype of pirates. I made my character the captain and called myself Captain Swan, my characters issue was that she has a fear of sharks. We then had to plan out the ship in our mentally so as group we went round and just said where things were so we could picture the ship in our minds. We then chose a place on the ship in which we wanted to start we then chose four of the movements that we had come up with in a group and had to do them in character, then we had to change the pace of some of the movements or repeat a movement. Changing the pace and using repetition worked well as it really adds dynamics into the performance making it more interesting to watch, we then added music to tie it all together this was good aswell as it really added an atmosphere to the performance and helped everyones focus to get into the theme of the piece. Once the intro section was over we had to start the dialogue but still stay in character with our movement and body languageso we had a juxtaposition of our movement and the dialogue, this helped as it keeps up the characters and theme within the scene.
After this as a group we then had to come up with one issue/problem for the group as a whole. We did this to add structure so we had a beginning, middle and end. The problem the prates encountered was that we hadnt found land in days and so e were running low on supplies but then we encounter mermaids and they can help us but not everyone is pleased about meeting the mermaids. Our ending we repeated the movement section to show how we were going back to routine and how pirates always have to be working because a pirate ship isnt going to sail itself. We then performed it to the other group.
After our break we then started on doing little movement pieces in twos. We had to sit in chairs next to eachother, then one by one we had to do three movements for example crossing your legs, folding your arms and looking to the left. Between us we had to have twelve movements overall in the style of Frantic Assembly. Frantic Assembly are a theatre group who create exciting, strenuous and mind blowing theatre pieces using movement,music,design and text. Using three movements made it easy to keep up a good pace, Sam and i got to twelve quite quickly as we found that putting a narrative to it made it easier to come up with the movements so we did another twelve movements but this time they were more physical like standing up or pushing one another. This was effective as it made the piece more entertaining and gave more atmosphere to the piece. We then performed our duos to the rest of the group, some people had found it hard to come up with the movements so Rachel said to add a story to it to make it easier which is what sam and I had done that we found had made it easier for us. We then had to come up with another twelve but based on our group themes so ours was pirates. This was fun as it made our movements more exciting also we could create them quicker as we could use the stereotypical movements of a pirate to our set. Once everyone had created them we made them link all together by using music making it a mini performance. I liked the chair routines as they were an interesting technique and different to just a dance number or a scene, i think we could incorporate the duo style within the dentist scene as at one point everyone is in a chair so could make it effective to show what is going on within this crazy scene but in a simpler and more unique way.
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