The first game we played was "I, You, We." The things I enjoyed about this game was that there was a structure to it.The fact that each person's statement had to start with a certain word was very limiting but also very reassuring. It gave me something to work off of, but sometimes the dialogues would end up being sort of repetitive. When different ways of creating a character were introduced it made the dialogues more interesting and dynamic. It was a little difficult for me to respond on the spot, but I think that games like these are improving my ability to do that. I didn't particularly enjoy how short the dialogues were because it felt very limiting, but I think that it made sense for the activity.
The second game we played was "Instant Character." I liked how we defined certain aspects of a character because it was helpful in teaching me how to quickly develop a character. I didn't really enjoy the structure of this game though because it felt like it took such a long time to get to the actual acting out of the character, and when it did get to that part it didn't last very long. I just wish that there had been more acting as the character in the game, but I still think the activity was effective in learning to build characters.
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Our theatre class only met twice this week. On Monday we played the game moose and the announcer game. I enjoyed the announcer game. In the announcer game, one pair of people acts as the announcers, and the other couple of people get to pantomime a scene. This game was entertaining because of how different it was each time. Just watching the game, it was interesting to see what scene the pantomimes would come up with, and how the announcers would describe it. It was also interesting participating in the game because of the dynamic between the announcers and the pantomimers. For example, the first time I was the pantomimer, I was more in control of the situation, but the second time, the announcers shaped the scene more. Even though that might not have been the intention of the exercise, it was very interesting to work around the things that the announcers were saying.
On Thursday, we played a game, of which the name escapes me. Two people would improvise a scene, and then whenever the audience called for it, one of them would pick up a card. The cards were statements or questions that we had written beforehand. I enjoyed playing this game because it forced me to go out of my comfort zone and improvise, but it also offered some guidance with the cards. The cards also made each scene very entertaining because of the way they took the scene in so many directions. This week during the theatre class we continued to play a variety of theatre games. To warm-up, we played simpler games like “stop-go jump” which was really just to get us comfortable and woken up again. Some games were more focused on active listening/watching such as “Quick-change” where one person would leave the circle, change 3 things about their appearance and then come back and have the group try to guess the differences. The “Twin interview” also focused a lot on active listening and watching but it additionally had elements of more talking and acting. We played conductor and Television channels, which are similar in structure. In a conductor, 5 people would line up and when pointed to by a ‘conductor’ they would say one sentence to create a story. This game was really interesting for me because the stories would get pulled in different directions by each persons’ sentence and then the group would have to adapt and build off of it. The Television channel game was less of a team effort, but still entertaining. One person would point to one of the 3 people. Of those three people, each of them had to act as if they were a part of a certain television channel. (eg. sports channel, news channel, soap opera etc.) Multiple games were based on expressing emotion, such as “slow-motion emotion” and “Emotion party” which we played again this week. But my favorite “games” that we played this week were the “Scene from a photo” and “Scene from real life” activities. In the scene from a photo activity, I was an actor. My director made some interesting choices based upon the image of a snowy scene that we were given. We ended up going with some Christmas themed scene which was very entertaining. The parameters we were given made improvising a scene very, interesting you could say. My director definitely had a clear vision of the scene so it was interesting to just follow along with what she wanted us to do. In the other activity, a scene from real life, I got to be the director. It was interesting to see how the actors improvised a scene based off of the story that I told. It was very entertaining to watch how they interpreted the characters, especially because some of the actors knew the characters in the story. |
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