1. How is role-playing or acting different from taking on a particular attitude during a group activity?
Because you could be on your own on stage and be not part of a group but the whole play yourself.
2. What can you do to improve your contribution to group work?
Let other people take the lead and give ideas.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Drama work Sept 25
1. What makes role-play enjoyable?
The fact that your making up the role and can make that person be whatever you want them to be. You can release things that are going on in the real world through characters.
2. How does adding details improve the work? What are those details?
It makes it more believable and realistic. It’s the small things that count like the way you move your hands when you talk, the way you speak or move on stage.
3. Some sociologists say that because most families today have so much technology, we have become so self-sufficient that we think that we don’t need communities anymore. What do you think about this?
It’s true to an extent. If we all locked ourselves away in some basement with a cell phone and a laptop no one would really feel connected to anyone. If we can actually cooperate with a large group of people verbally then it is much more useful.
4. How important is concentration and focus in this kind of work? Why?
Very important because you have to listen to what the other people are saying all the time and while your doing that you have to stay in character.
5. How important is listening to others in this kind of work? Why?
Once again very important because if your partner makes an offer and your off in the magical realm of over there the scene immediately stops and you usually break character.
6. How does role play in drama help us understand ourselves as human beings on this planet?
We can express things that we are going through in role and laugh about it and keep on going. It also makes us understand what other people may be feeling if you are 100% committed to a role.
The fact that your making up the role and can make that person be whatever you want them to be. You can release things that are going on in the real world through characters.
2. How does adding details improve the work? What are those details?
It makes it more believable and realistic. It’s the small things that count like the way you move your hands when you talk, the way you speak or move on stage.
3. Some sociologists say that because most families today have so much technology, we have become so self-sufficient that we think that we don’t need communities anymore. What do you think about this?
It’s true to an extent. If we all locked ourselves away in some basement with a cell phone and a laptop no one would really feel connected to anyone. If we can actually cooperate with a large group of people verbally then it is much more useful.
4. How important is concentration and focus in this kind of work? Why?
Very important because you have to listen to what the other people are saying all the time and while your doing that you have to stay in character.
5. How important is listening to others in this kind of work? Why?
Once again very important because if your partner makes an offer and your off in the magical realm of over there the scene immediately stops and you usually break character.
6. How does role play in drama help us understand ourselves as human beings on this planet?
We can express things that we are going through in role and laugh about it and keep on going. It also makes us understand what other people may be feeling if you are 100% committed to a role.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
A Clockwork Orange (Mcconnell, Reznick, Gross, Barton)
2) Briefly describe the process your group undertook in preparing for your performance. What worked? What didn’t work?
We tried to rehearse as much as we could and we all contributed ideas as much as possible. The rehearsal worked a lot, of course, and we just really tried to get a feel for the movie as much as we could ie. watching clips and looking up NADSAT words. Nothing really DIDN'T work but there were just things we knew we couldn't do because some of the scenes were just too out there.
3) Do you feel your performance was successful or not successful? Why or why not?
Yes I think it was very successful. We had done everything we wanted too do and the only part we really had trouble with were one or two of the transitions. We really got the plot of the movie across using very few tableaus.
4) What do you think could have been improved about your performance?
As I said before, just the transitions.
5) What do you think worked well in your performance?
The narration while frozen worked quite well and the costumes were really helpful to the performance.
2) Briefly describe the process your group undertook in preparing for your performance. What worked? What didn’t work?
We tried to rehearse as much as we could and we all contributed ideas as much as possible. The rehearsal worked a lot, of course, and we just really tried to get a feel for the movie as much as we could ie. watching clips and looking up NADSAT words. Nothing really DIDN'T work but there were just things we knew we couldn't do because some of the scenes were just too out there.
3) Do you feel your performance was successful or not successful? Why or why not?
Yes I think it was very successful. We had done everything we wanted too do and the only part we really had trouble with were one or two of the transitions. We really got the plot of the movie across using very few tableaus.
4) What do you think could have been improved about your performance?
As I said before, just the transitions.
5) What do you think worked well in your performance?
The narration while frozen worked quite well and the costumes were really helpful to the performance.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
drama work
1. How are still images (tableaux) used in movies?
To set up the open sequence or to end the whole movie. Or if one of the characters and freeze time (which would be awsome) they would have to use a tableaux, using special effect or just the old fashioned way.
2. How can a tableau help the audience understand ideas and feelings in drama?
Its like looking at a paiting or a picture in a way. All of the ideas are clear and given right infront of you. Its the same if in a guided tour or something the person stopped and just sumed up one idea of the tour or the whole tour in acouple short sentences.
3. What is the difference between being sculpted into a gesture and creating a gesture on your own in a tableau?
When you are sculpted you are being exposed and holding positions that would not necessarily be comfortable with you. When your just going into a gesture you are aware of the way you want to move and do things that may not look good in a certain sense but with
4. Why might a group use sculpting to create a tableau in a drama presentation?
Because it would be as if instead of everyone's single idea there was a generic way of posing and it would look uniform and good.
To set up the open sequence or to end the whole movie. Or if one of the characters and freeze time (which would be awsome) they would have to use a tableaux, using special effect or just the old fashioned way.
2. How can a tableau help the audience understand ideas and feelings in drama?
Its like looking at a paiting or a picture in a way. All of the ideas are clear and given right infront of you. Its the same if in a guided tour or something the person stopped and just sumed up one idea of the tour or the whole tour in acouple short sentences.
3. What is the difference between being sculpted into a gesture and creating a gesture on your own in a tableau?
When you are sculpted you are being exposed and holding positions that would not necessarily be comfortable with you. When your just going into a gesture you are aware of the way you want to move and do things that may not look good in a certain sense but with
4. Why might a group use sculpting to create a tableau in a drama presentation?
Because it would be as if instead of everyone's single idea there was a generic way of posing and it would look uniform and good.
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