24th February

Today we looked at making the story believable. We did this by getting the emotions into our heads as we perform so we believe what we are feeling in the scene. We experienced that by getting in a neutral statue pose with no expression, we were then given an emotion, scared for example. We would then remembered a time when we were scared and relived the moment so the emotion came though our eyes. I think I was successful with getting the emotion in my eyes but my body tensed up and I lost the relaxed, neutral body.

We then applied the emotional eyes to a moving exercise where we crossed the room in an emotion, angry for example. And we experimented with the intensity of the movement so if a slow seething anger was at number one, then natural hatred would be a five and a 10 would be over the top fuming. I found out that I am bad at going all out and over the top emotions that I am better at the more subdued emotions, so I need to work on that.

We also took what we learnt from the statue exercise and applied it to a scene. The scene was at McDonald's and we each had to mime a character in the scene. I chose an interesting but complicated backstory and I played around with it but I learnt that the most believable story's are the simple ones, Toby sitting and enjoying his burger.

From this lesson I learnt that you don't have to have experienced the exact situation to feel something simmilar. I also learnt that I need to work on giving a bigger, ott performance that we can bring down if needed and that the most believable stories are the simplest.