Monday 20th Jan - Workshop 3 - Interpreting a Stimulus & How to Make it Entertaining

Monday 20th Jan - Workshop 3

‘Interpreting a Stimulus & How to Make it Entertaining’

Notes on Workshop:

Pt.1 Mime

• Mimed our morning routine - everyone started simplistic and basic (boring visually)
• Started experimenting with movement and coming away from just being in one spot
• Exaggerated our movements
• Changed timings around - stepped away from doing it in real time 
• Had to do whole morning routine in 20 seconds 

Allowed us to experiment with our movements to take a boring task (getting ready in the morning) and make it something interesting for an audience to watch.

Pt.2 Act Out an Argument

• Moved from morning routine and mimed an argument with someone (not seen/audience/break 4th wall)
• How to show an argument  - someone has taken my hoodie
• Worked with movements to show an argument 
• Everyone started in just mime - so we added speech and emphasised everything

Pt.3Argument With No Speech

• Recreate argument about stolen hoodie but with no speech - all soundscapes
• How can we show an argument through sound 
• Experimented with different sounds 
• Big claps - anger, snappy
• Allowed us to work with how we can communicate a centric without explicitly stating what is happening. 

Pt.4 Barbed Wire Stimulus

• Put into pairs - looked at a stimulus showing barbed wire
• Brainstormed stimulus 
• Focused on: context barbed wire is used in, how barbed feels to touch etc.

Pt.5 Physical Theatre on Stimulus

• Set task to create short physical theatre sequence based on barbed wire stimulus 
• Mathilde and I agreed on theme of ‘prison break’ = barbed wire surrounds prisons and is using there to keep people from getting in and out.
• Used physical theatre and soundscapes (clapping) to show the pain of touching barbed wire. 

Pt.6 Duologue on Stimulus

• Set aside short physical theatre sequence and came up with duologue 
• Used very naturalistic language - made it a little unserious 
• 1st mate (Mathilde) = serious and trying to be realistic - more logical 
• 2nd mate (Me) = unserious, irrational and impulsive
• Used solo line and unison 
• Experimented with volume and timings
• Spoken while back to back so that we can’t see each other 

Pt.7 Combine 

• Final task was to pair up with another pair and combine both duologues with both physical theatre sequences - with Verity and Lola.
• We spoke half of our duologue first while the others did their sequence.
• When we got halfway our duologue the others started their duologue while we started our sequence. 
• Once they were halfway, we finished the second half of our duologue while the others repeated their sequence.
• Once we finished our duologue we finished the rest of our sequence, while they finished the rest of their duologue.
• We decided to stand in a trapezium shape, with Mathilde and I at the back being closer together. We chose this so that when we both run and jump we would do it in between Verity and Lola.