Using the room as a stiumles you image you've just woken up for the first time. As if every thing is new and alien to you. You look around the room in confusion, explore every muscle in your body, look at everything think in detail and with care.
i like this exercise because it changes every time you do it. its never the same. i also think it looks really effective if you believe it more than if you just do it. when i do it i imagine i have just been born, or i have just woken up form a dream and i am in an infermilar room. i think what ever works for you is best. We have used this in blackout at the begging when we are on the floor, awaking in the jail cell. i think it workers really well because it makes the us and the audiences share an emotion of confusion and dissertation.
It's about your ability to fill space by using you collective responsibility and peripheral vision when walking in a room. Walking around freely around the space
Milling 2 - creating spatial relationships with in the space
energy levels
1 slow not slow emotion
2 low energy
3 normal
4 frantic
5 controlled Caicos (BOM in the room)
I have done this exercise else were and is different every time, for the energy levels varies ever so slightly. but i do like this technique for you act off other peoples energy for example, when someone is has a every low energy it makes your energy level lower.
We have decided to use this in blackout , right at the being when walking in to the room. we all start off at 1 and me being the Protagonist controls when it changes to 4 and then again to 1.
The fishers exersize is when there is a leader in the group, and job of everyone else is to follow and copy the direction in witch they are travelling in. If you are unable to see the leader it is best to copy the rest of the group for everyone is moving together as ensemble. It should look seamless and should be unable to direct who the leader is with in the group . The coral movement should create a wave effect, and should ripple though the group. Following the leader using peripheral vision is key and will help you greatly. I like this exercises for not only was it enjoyable but looked good visually. When being part of the group i felt like were as one, like one body, but we were all important in ourself and controlled one part of the body to make it hole. The reasoning for the name "fishers exersize" is because fish travel is groups called "shoal" . when fish travel in a shoal there is a unannounced leader so they move as one following each other in a way of communication. We are incorporating the exercises at the beging of black out when we are all entering.
The exercise hand raise fall starts off with a group of people walking in a room making sure you have peripheral vision of everyone.
Spontaneously some one with stop. Raise there hand and say "ME" loud enough for everyone in the class to hear. Then with there legs shoulder width apart with fall back. and the aim is for the rest of the group/class is to catch them safely. and then carry on
When you feel everybody feels they have got the hand of it they start adding in another "layer". This being, instead of saying me and falling, you are to point at someone else and say you, and they are to fall.
To make the exercise a bit more controversial you when falling you can fall in any direction you feel best, weather that be falling forward, backwards, left , right ...
My honest first impressions of hand raise fall was total uncertainly. Because i am self couscous about my weight and didn't trust that people would be able to catch me when i fell. i tried to avoid the first layer by not falling on demand however on the second layer i had to for it was a spontaneous picking of other people picking individuals to fall. When i fell i felt quite liberated and from then on trusted the class to catch me. i think it is a create trusting exercising because after participating you feel you can depend on the rest of the class.
P2Demonstrate
personal and technical skills in rehearsal making a positive contribution to
the process
M2Demonstrate
personal and technical skills in rehearsal, consistently making a positive
contribution and constructive contribution to the process.
D2Demonstrate
personal and technical skills in rehearsal with consistently positive and
constructive contributions, engagement, commitment, input and self- reflection.
Group
Grading Criteria
Achieved?
BRIT Grade
Rational (Reason for grade)
Feedback for Improvement
Group 1
(My Group)
P1
7
I thought we exceled when working together and all
contributed to the final piece as well as using a wide range of theatrical
techniques.
However I feel the some of the techniques used
didn’t work and were unnecessary. To improve we could self-reflected over our
work when rehearsing.
M1 -
D1
Group
Grading Criteria
Achieved?
BRIT Grade
Rational (Reason for grade)
Feedback for Improvement
Group 2
P1
7
I thought they worked well as a group and although
was strong piece. However they lacked in constancy of the week parts broughtdown
the really good and strong parts.
To improve they could use a wider variety of technical
skills so the constancy of the work is constant. They also broke out of
character when making a mistake witch let the piece down so as a target when
making a mistake carry thought with it.
M1-
D1
Group
Grading Criteria
Achieved?
BRIT Grade
Rational (Reason for grade)
Feedback for Improvement
Group 3
P1
9
I thought this was a well devised piece of theatre
with a wide range of theatrical technique leant in class. It flowed really
nicely and was engaging throughout.
Keep the consistency of good use of techniques up
because some bits lack witch weakens the performance.
M1
D1
-
Group
Grading Criteria
Achieved?
BRIT Grade
Rational (Reason for grade)
Feedback for Improvement
Group 4
P1
6
I could tell the group work well together anddevised
a well thought out piece.
I thought it lacked in technical skills and didn’t
show off their ability to use them. Although I thought it was well thought
out they need to commit to what they were doing.
"Blackout is the true story of a 15-year-old boy charged with attempted murder who tries to piece together the events in his life that have brought him into a secure care unit and threaten to keep him there. This short play packs a big emotional punch with its stylistic economy and razor-sharp storytelling."
abusive father
"you were poor" - Margaret Thatcher and the resection
bullied
http://www.daveyandersontheatre.com/blackout.html
"they used to beat you up for having long hair"
he used to have long hair and this was during the 70s becasue thats when skinheads were at there most....
"the gimp"
"do you go to the grave yards and hang about"
"DO YOU SHAGG DEAD PEOPLE"
SKIN HEAD TRANSFORMATION
"the doc martins, braces ... the bomber jacket"
"watch films like romper stomper and american history x..."
"you would listen to music, the guritar , the bass that beats into you."
i dont think be would be listening to stuff like this
even though i dont think james was deep down a raist he wouldnt have listend to neo nazi music
Neo-Nazi Hate Music: A Guide
Introduction
In the United States, racist songs praising the Ku Klux Klan or promoting segregation have existed for many years. But starting in the 1970s, a new phenomenon emerged: the creation of an entire genre of music predicated on racism.
Today, hate music plays a central role in the white supremacist movement in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. It is key to many aspects of the neo-Nazi world, but is especially important in three areas:
It isone of the most significant ways neo-Nazis attempt to attract young peopleinto their movement; this source of recruitment is possibly the most important factor in the ability of neo-Nazi groups to expand or even maintain their membership. Second, hate music has become an important source of income for white supremacists. Several prominent white supremacist groups in the U.S. receive a substantial amount or even a majority of their funding from distributing hate music, promoting hate music concerts, and selling accessories and clothing. A significant portion of these materials are distributed in Europe, even in countries where they may be illegal. Third, and perhaps most importantly,hate music has been instrumental in the formation of a white supremacist subculture.In the 1960s, neo-Nazis such as George Lincoln Rockwell had little to offer followers except extreme rhetoric.In the 21stcentury, however, white supremacists around the world are linked not only by shared ideas, but by shared customs, fashions, and most crucially, music.Hate music helps bring haters together into a shared community.
You begin you in a evenly spaced circle, with everyone paying attention everyones start the same a beat with your feet. A tempo of a heart beat would be best suited. When ready you start a spontaouis clap passing across the circle making sure you exchange eye contacted with one another when passing the clap to ensure it was deliverd to the right person. when resiving the clap make sure you make a seperate clap to resive the clap and then to send it so each indivishal claps twice. This gives you time to aim the clap at someone.
When you and the rest of the pasticatens are ready start wlaking around the room , into the nearist space free, but keeping witht the heart beat rhythem with you feet. When ready start passing the clap around the room, using your periferal vison to make aware of were the clap is in the room. This game depends on the collective resonbility of everyone else i that they are keeping alter the clap so they are fully prepared if the clap is passed to them.
When the clap is lost or is off beat rember its not a negative and alothough you may feel the need to sign or a disapopintment just canclle it out and carry on.
When the clap is going well, to spice it up start a new chain whilst the other one is going on !
