Tactics (Monday lesson)

Tactics

In the beginning of Monday's lesson the first thing we did was the Shakespeare game where we would walk around and our teacher would say the name of a character and each character had a specific action we would have to perform. These characters and their actions are:

• Helena: we would act really stroppy
• Macbeth: We would shush everyone 
• Romeo and Juliet: Get into pairs and pretend to die 
• Hamlet: We have to say "to be or not to be that is the question"
• The tempest: Everyone would lay on the floor and the teacher would walk around tapping people, and when you were tapped you have to start a sound scape for a storm.

Two students then created two more characters which were;

• Fairy: for this we acted really creepy and used ours physicality 
• puck: We would pretend that we are throwing powder in peoples faces 

After that exercise we went into pairs and we had to decide who was A and who was B, during this exercise the only word A was aloud to say was yes  and B was only aloud to say no, we are also not aloud to use our physicality e.g. Gestures. This was hard because we couldn't get our opinion across and we lost sight over what we where meant to be fighting about, furthermore we couldn't make our acting believable.  

We then done the same exercise but we weren't aloud to speak this proved difficult to do because our partner did not understand what were trying to say and this could also mean that the audience would not be able to understand what we are trying to say.

Overall this exercise helped us learn that to be a believable actor you need to use your physicality and your voice, you also need to know what your objectives are because without them you wont know how to act out your lines properly

The three things that effect your tactics are

• The mood your in 
• Who your talking to 
• Your objective in the scene 

advantages and disadvantages of the 4 characters

Trickster 

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stop in the name of love exercise and 4 characters exercise

In the stop in the name of love exercise we had to be a Amoeba in the beginning and then you would go to a person and play rock paper scissors if you won you would go up to a fish, bird then monkey and then if you won after monkey you would stop and then sing "stop in the name of love" and the first one would win.
We done this exercise to gain some energy and to wake ourselves up.

The next exercise we did was we had to perform an action for 4 commonly found characters in Shakespeares plays those 4 characters were:

● Sovereign- uptight, responsible, wears a crown
 The action we performed was we put both our hands on our heads to act as crowns
we had to walk like we had a long cape to represent the power the sovereign hold in the kingdom
● Warror- they are very alert, ready for action
The action we did was put our left arm in above our head the arm represents a shield we carry around with us. Also our right hand is pointing to symbolise the sword
●Carer- selfless and open
the action we did is when we see someone we fling our arms open likevwevare going to give them a hug, and the arms should be really wide open.
●Trickster- naughty, or a joker, likes to divert attention
The action we did was when we encountered someone we would spin around to the left and click their fingers and give them a thumbs up

Then we had lines and we had to see which line went with which character
"Lord what these mortals be?" -sovereign
"Here villian drawn and ready" -warrior
"Pretty, soul" -carer
"I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes" -trickster

we then found out that all the lines were puck's this made us see that one character has so many different qualities, which also helps us try to figure out all the different qualities in our characters.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Assessment sheet

Monday Shakespeare lesson

3 sentence words
in this exercise in pairs we said lines from a midsummer nights dream in the points of Demetrius and Helena while doing one action out of 3 depending on which line they were the first one is probe: question the other person or audience
Hook: drawing in the audience or the other character
Dismissal: dismissing the other person or ending the conversation
We did this to show which ones are stressed helping us understand the text more and characters relationship with the other character

 The underlined words are the stressed words.
The character Helena used more hook lines because her objective was to try and draw Demetrius in, try get him to  fall in love with her.
Demetrius used more dismissal lines because his objective was to get Helena to get away from him.

The insult generator
The insult generator helped us understand more about shakesperian words and how to pronounce it better
My 3 words were:
Rank, onion-eyed, measle

Exercises we did on the first lesson

Exercises we did on the first lesson 

the first exercise we did was we had to pick 2 people to battle but first we had to blindfold their eyes and there was 2 rolled up pieces of paper on the floor they had to find while blindfolded when they found it they had to hit each other the first person who gets hit loses. We did this to use our senses and find people without our eye sight.

Another exercise was you had 2 people on either side of the stick and you had to pick it up using one finger, but you must not drop the stick and you had to walk around at different levels and speeds. 

In the next exercise we done the same stick exercise but this time we had to feel different feelings and make it obvious what they were without acting out.    

What I think about a midsummer nights dream

What I think about a Midsummer Nights Dream

So far I think midsummer nights dream is quite a comedic play with some darker issues, for example is covers drugs, as the characters: Demetrius, Lysander and Titania get drugged by something that makes them fall in love with the first person they meet.

Also Titania gets date "raped" forced to love somebody without her consent, but some of the language in the play was hard to understand but i still somehow understood the story it was telling. 

Content page

Contents page 

You must have written on your blog:

•  What do i know about my character from what the script tells me 
• you have to answer the 9 questions 

1. Who am i - autobiography  (first person)/diary entry/ internal monologue - looks, education, occupation, likes/dislikes, relationships/family life, childhood. 
2. What time is it- for each scene I'm in (the fairies come out at night) season as well (midsummer 21st July/ the worst summer  in years because Titania and Oberon have fallen out), 21st era, what it feels like to be in that time
3. Where am i - for each scene you are in (the forest) 
4. What surrounds me - mud, trees. fairies 
5. What is my relationship with the things/people around me ( i have a really close relationship with the fairies) 
6.  What just happened before i enter the scene 
7. What do i want (My objective is top serve Titania) (the object contains the see of action)
8. Whats the obstacle 
9. my action (what am i going to do to get what i want)