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.

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