Blog 6

On Monday we started of in room 415 with everyone so we could register and talk about the upcoming plays, in the common ground season . I am going to see blue skies which is a physical play about mental health in young teenagers I'm also going to see spring awakening. 

Next we found out we were going to start doing exercises as a whole group. We started of with breathing skills to help with projection and how to control our speech and how fast we can say things or slow. We started with inhaling for 4 seconds then exhaling, this helps us become calm and tranquil so we can concentrate easily. 
Then we walked around in neutral and began going faster, slowly we changed how we moved and used sharp movements and turns to get around without bumping into each other or stopping this is related to East end tales because in the east end in rush hours everyone is moving at a fast pace trying to get places. After doing this we had to make a connection with someone through eye contact then we moved onto using our bodies for example- i made eye contact with daniel then we touch hands and changed our level by going to the ground. Once we had done this we moved to the walls and there was a square in the middle of the room which we used as our space. One by one someone had to move into the square using an action related to East end tales we then formed a whole square of different movement and characters, i chose to incorporate my scene by imagining i was in a pub with a glass in my hand falling over. After individually working on our action we had to make contact with someone else using speech or movement. We then used 1 sound to add onto it. 

After this exercise we split up again into separate rooms. The next task was to create the prologue so miss Lee got 4 people up to make a diamond shape. The person at the front was told to walk forward once they had done this they turned and a new leader began walking. They then added movement of there choice. Once they had done this twice round 4 more people added on and we kept adding until the hold class was in the diamond. We then changed the movement with things that a taxi driver would do because this is the prologue scene. After working as a whole class we split into mini groups of 5 and got a verse each to work on. This is how we are going to start the play. 

Next we got our target sheets for what we wanted to achieve by the end of working on our tales. i put 
- To of gotten through a big chunk of the tale as we have lots to do we will do this by moving at a fast pace and not repeating what we've done. 
- We will share all our ideas and put them together, we will do this by working as a group and not saying NO! 
- We will understand our physical side of the tale and make sure all the movement looks clear and neat, we will do this by learning our lines so we are able to work on movement 

When we finished this we started developing our tales, my group had a few difficulties but we got a lot done.