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.