Monday Shakespeare lesson 3- 17/01/16

We warmed up by doing a fast pace walk while the teacher called out different characters and plays and we had to act out their trait eg- tempest we had to make a soundscape and Helena we had to be moody 

We did finger fencing where we said "do you bit your thumb at us sir" and had to reply " I do bite my thumb at you sir" and then proceed to Finger fence until we tap the other player on the cheek 
Insult generator helps us to become more confident with our diction
Puny onion-eyed maggot-pie



Hook 
Probe
Dismiss
Gestures me and a partner had to re-enact a scene between Helena and Demetrius while using the three actions to show a way of saying the line and what type of line we thought it would be. We did this to show more emotion when we said the lines and the stress words so that people were more enticed. This helped us to bring out the character more. When we didn't use the actions compared to when we did it was harder to understand what they meant and that the words were said quieter and with less emotion. But when said with the actions we became louder and added more emotion.
The effect on the audience when certain words are stressed is that they understand them more.

Archetypes and Stop in the name of love Exercises

Stop in the name of love

We did this exercise to help us get into our bodies more and to help us work together as a group. We had to work from amoeba to a fish to a bird then finally to a monkey using the rock paper scissors game. Once we had done these we had to find another monkey and whoever one that had to shout/sing "Stop in the name of love". 

Archetypes

We did this exercise to show that any character can have slightly different personalities depending on the situation they are in. We said different lines while having to choose whether we thought their personality  would be: sovereign; warrior; carer; the trickster. We also did it to show different physical archetypes to show different physicality. I think this will  help me with how I say certain things and how I will make my character act at certain moments