The New 6 Weeks and Upcoming Spring Break

Well, welcome back from the 3 day weekend.

Last week, we finished up looking at Objectives and Obstacles. Today, we looked at setting the stage with designing a basic set to accentuate our obstacles and help us "liven" up the scene and create tension and make it interesting. Now, the pitfalls that we looked at today: sitting, stand still, and low-intensity scenes.

With the addition of creating a set, we began to talk about movement and making sure that we are motivating all movements by tying them to our objectives and make sure that we are overcoming obstacles.

In the next class, we are going to look at solidifying these ideas of motivated movement, and we are going to look at different ways of overcoming obstacles with different tactics. We will look at extending that "I want to..." phrase of the objective into doing something with it...active verbs, and playable actions!

See you in the next class, get those play summaries done, due before Spring Break!

Recap of Week 5

We got through all of our scenes this week. Next week, we are going to begin to plow through the "work" or acting with each other. We got all sorts of information over the two authors that we are going to be working with this unit.

Remember, there will be a quiz on Tuesday over the Neil Simon and Beth Henley. Click on their names to see the class notes over the authors. Please make sure that you are looking at these to get the information that you will be quizzed over.

This week, we are going to begin looking at Objectives/Goals, Obstacles and Tactics. We will be picking them out of our scenes and look at assigning different tactics.

Remember that Thursday is supposed to be your first "off book" day, you should be roughly memorized by that time, able to act a bit without the book in your hand. Read, read, read, have someone read with you, and read again to start that memorization process.

Good luck and I'll see you on Tuesday!

Scene Work

So today we began our scene study! I know that you guys were super excited to begin this portion of the class because this means that we are going to start real acting, right? Well, I'm really excited to see you guys begin the journey too! I think the scenes and partnerships are going to work well. I put some time into the picking and I really hope the work is going to be fun for all.

As we move forward, we are going to be exploring some more of Robert Cohen's exploration of GOTE (Goal, Obstacle, Tactics & Expectation). I hope you have fun reading your scenes over the next few days!

In the next class, we are going to continue the read through of our scenes and we are going to begin to explore Goals.