Warm up 26/09/13

On Thursdays lesson we did various activities including:
Voice Warms Ups which controlled out breathing and voice and how we use them in different scenarios.
Sirening (Low pitch and high pitch)
Breathing (Controlling different ways we breath)

We also did tongue twisters to warm up our lips, tongue and mouths.We used tongue twisters such as:
"The tip of the teeth and the lips"
"Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers"

Physical Warm Ups helped us loosen up and stretch out to help us get into neutral so that we are alert and ready to act in any role. Physical warm ups included:

Cat stretch

Rolling down the spine (We also included sounds such as "s, z, sh, j, v, mm and ah"

Pull and Pressing Exercise (which helped us gain trust with one another and taught us how much we depend on each others strength and energy)

Shoulder Rolls

 

Another warm up we did was facial warm ups which helped with facial expressions and just general warming up. These included:

Raisin face and pumpkin face

Large imaginary chewing gum

 

We did an emotional state exercise where we showed our levels of confidence on a scale on 1-10. 1 being so timid and not being able to face the world at all and being at a point of suicidal. To show this I sat on the floor and hid my face and started shaking to show the fright of being exposed to the real world. 10 was being extremely confident and so 'out there' that we turn our noses up to people etc. We showed that we had all this confidence and no matter what we are always correct in any situation and we are the best in the world, and better than everybody else. This exercise helped us explore our characters and other characters and how we display them. This showed different energy levels and the emotional state in which our characters are in.

 

Warm up 12/09/13

Thursday 12th September 2013
Warming up in Theatre

Getting into Neutral

We started off our warm up by walking around the room in different paces so that we relax our bodies and show that we have spacial awareness. We then moved onto doing leg swings which relaxed our leg muscles and warmed us up. We looked straight ahead and kept our bodies in neutral to make us more comfortable before acting.

We then swung our arms around at different paces to have the same outcome that the leg swings gave us. We then caused friction between our hands which made warmth and then we warmed up and massaged our faces so that we were relaxed and ready to get into a neutral state and prepared to act any role.

We laid on the floor with our eyes open and imagined a small feather on our lips and did exercises that controlled our breathing and the amount of breaths we take whilst doing different noises which could use our voice box or just breath.

We then had our eyes closed and imagined a small movement our characters will make in the play and then we imagined how we would perform it. We then imagined other thoughts about our characters which helped us explore ways in which our character would act and things that can some up their past and future. This helped us in the next activity as we wrote about our characters in the first person and had to imagine things that were not necessarily obvious in the script. This helped us make a profile of our characters and this would also help us discover ways in which we can act this.

Warm up 19/09/13

We started off by getting our bodies into neutral, by this we walked around the room and imagined a hot bowl of oil lying on our hips and we had to try our hardest to not make the oil move this was to help us concentrate.

We then did an exercise where we shook out legs and arms eight times, then four times, twice and then once whilst counting to practise our breathing. At the end of this exercise we jumped and shouted funky chicken. The idea of this was to also warm up our bodies and vocal skills.

We did another imagination task where we laid on the floor and blew a feather up in the air with different types of breath and sounds to focus on our breathing and the strengths that we use.