Today we learnt about camera shoots and how acting on camera is different to on stage. Firstly, in a group we had to think of how TV acting and Theatre acting is different and write them down in a list. I contributed to this by giving ideas.
Difference in Shots
We were given a sheet that had different camera angles on and name which shot they were. I helped spot which camera shot was which. We learnt that for each shot you have to change how you act.
Long Shot you have to make your acting bigger and melodramatic. However when your filming a Extreme Close-up, because the camera is so close to you face, it picks up even the smallest movement.
Distance on Camera
We were then given a sheet that had different TV and Movie stills on, that we had to recreate then, and hold the position for 20 seconds. During this exercise I learnt that when on camera you have to be closer to people than you would in real life. When we were setting up the scene I did feel quit awkward. However when the 20 seconds started, and I was in role and focus, the awkward feeling went away. After doing this I learnt that actor have to be close to each other than they would in real life and in theatre. In theatre, the actors are a normal distance apart. However on screen the actors need to stand closer together to get them both in shot.
Cheating Shots
When watching we assume everything we are seeing is true. However sometimes the shot is cheated. All the viewer can see is what is on screen however as an actor we have to think about what isn't on screen.
For Example, If 2 people are in a fight scene and the director wants to get a close up shot of both actors together, and on actor is smaller, the smaller actor may need to stand on a box to achieve a good close up shot of both actors. However the viewer would never know that that shot has been cheated, because they can't see the box.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Friday, 15 February 2013
My Characters Monologue
This My Characters Monologue
They were fighting
again last night, my brother knocked on my door and climbed into my bed. We lay
there together till we fell asleep, wishing the screaming could end. Next thing
I knew my alarm went off. As I applied my make-up and did my hair I tried my best
to fake normality. I got dressed, putting on my protective clothing as if it
was a raincoat which kept me dry, and as everything poured down its just
sprinkled away. I went to school as happy Chantelle desperately trying to cover
the pain inside.
I’m pretty popular at
school everyone loves me. I talk to my friends, which is pretty much everyone.
I am nice to everyone, because no-one should feel left out.
School is usually
boring, most of the time I just zone out and think about other things.
Sometimes I think about reinvention. If I cut my hair, would they even notice?
I went to town after
school, alone. I went in Boots, staring at the perfumes, lipsticks and
blushers. I looked around. I picked up the new Chanel No.5, without even
thinking about it. I dropped it in my bag. As always no one really noticed.
I walked home, with
all my new goodies. I ran upstairs sat down and started cutting of all the
labels of my new clothes, listening to the same old broken record in the
background. Some parts of my monologue make more sense when you see them performed.
' I talk to my friends, which is pretty much everyone. I am nice to everyone, because no-one should feel left out.' while I am delivering these lines, Fran who is playing me, will be making fun of other people. However, the audience will see that I think I am being nice.
'listening to the same old broken record in the background. '
While Fran, is miming cutting tags of clothes, Shannon and Jack, who play my parents, will be fighting in the background.
I thought of various different way of how to end my monologue, I was going to have her cut her hair. However that wouldn't work because I have rehearsed previous scenes, and flipping my hair is a big part of my character. However in the end I decided to have her steal. This works well, because she is very interested in fashion and make-up. Also because her parent are so wrapped up in arguing and fighting they don't really notice her. So she does it to try and get there attention.
In the monologue the audience get so see a contrast on her home life and school life. When she is in school she is talking to her "Friends" however when she goes shopping after school she goes alone. This shows how alone she is.
Thursday, 14 February 2013
14th February
Today we did the final scene. We used the idea of ending the play with a written letter to the teacher, we got this idea from The Breakfast Club, we used there wording for the letter, because I fits well with our play.
However rather than ending it with 'You see us how you want to see us' with thought it would be better if we used a word that describes who we really are.
My word is Alone, because my character is very lonely. She pretends to be really popular, but really she is very lonely, her parents don't really pay attention to her.
I helped other people think of names because they were stuck, also because some people were off we had to think of names that would fit there character.
In the afternoon we added on an improvisation scene to our starting physical theatre scene. I like this scene because I think the audience really gets to see what my character is like. Because I am skipping and bouncing around and talking to loads of other class mates, however I am also being mean to people, I throw books and papers in the air and steal Megan's phone.
However rather than ending it with 'You see us how you want to see us' with thought it would be better if we used a word that describes who we really are.
My word is Alone, because my character is very lonely. She pretends to be really popular, but really she is very lonely, her parents don't really pay attention to her.
I helped other people think of names because they were stuck, also because some people were off we had to think of names that would fit there character.
In the afternoon we added on an improvisation scene to our starting physical theatre scene. I like this scene because I think the audience really gets to see what my character is like. Because I am skipping and bouncing around and talking to loads of other class mates, however I am also being mean to people, I throw books and papers in the air and steal Megan's phone.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
5th Feb 2013
Today we ran though our physical theatre routine, as some people were off we had to fit them in. We also fit the opening scene to a song called Kids by Take That. This songs fits well with our scene because of the lyrics.We had to change a few of the timings so that they fit in with the song.
I had the idea of rather than poking Sophie that I would play with her hair, this would make more sense, because at the end I end up playing with her hair. Also my character thinks by playing with peoples hair she is helping them, when really it is annoying them and they doesn't like it.
We also added a few more steps to the physical theatre opening scene. Once we have finished the scene we freeze on the chair, how our characters would sit. Some of the other students interact with each other, then we all do a few synchronised movements. For my move I stand on the chair and fit bump the air. This move is inspired by the end move in The Breakfast Club. Which is an icon move.
We then do a few other movements, when the lyrics is "They'll be trouble when the kids come out, When then kids come out, When the kids come out." Each time the lyrics says When the Kids come out, we pose in character. Then we gets down of the chair, and stand behind it. When the lyric is "Hey Hey Hey Hey, what you looking at?" We lift our heads up on " What you looking at?" then move our chairs to out class room setting.
We also planned out the first 4 scenes. We do a docedrama scene, this is the first scene were the audience really get to see my character. However they see the Happy Chanatelle, after my monologue you see more about my character.
I had the idea of rather than poking Sophie that I would play with her hair, this would make more sense, because at the end I end up playing with her hair. Also my character thinks by playing with peoples hair she is helping them, when really it is annoying them and they doesn't like it.
We also added a few more steps to the physical theatre opening scene. Once we have finished the scene we freeze on the chair, how our characters would sit. Some of the other students interact with each other, then we all do a few synchronised movements. For my move I stand on the chair and fit bump the air. This move is inspired by the end move in The Breakfast Club. Which is an icon move.
We then do a few other movements, when the lyrics is "They'll be trouble when the kids come out, When then kids come out, When the kids come out." Each time the lyrics says When the Kids come out, we pose in character. Then we gets down of the chair, and stand behind it. When the lyric is "Hey Hey Hey Hey, what you looking at?" We lift our heads up on " What you looking at?" then move our chairs to out class room setting.
We also planned out the first 4 scenes. We do a docedrama scene, this is the first scene were the audience really get to see my character. However they see the Happy Chanatelle, after my monologue you see more about my character.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
My Character
My Character is called Chantelle, she is the stereotypical bitch character. However I wanted her to be a bit different to most bitch characters. I decided she would be a happy bitch. Sort of like she was living in her own world, in her own imagination.
In real life she is very mean to other characters in the play, however she thinks she is being nice to them, because in her world everyone loves her. But really she is alone, she doesn't have any close friends. She spends all her free time alone at home, listening to her parents argue in the background.
I got this idea from Wicked the musical. My character is similar to Galinda, she is the Good Witch of the South, everyone in Oz loves her. However as the musical continues and you meet Elphaba, who is knows as the Wicked Witch of The West, and Galinda is very mean to her, but she doesn't realise it.
At the start of this unit we where given stimuli of song lyrics and we had to make a scene based around them. The lyrics were from a song called Family Portrait by Pink. These fit well with my character so we made a piece using them lyrics as inspiration. I think giving my character family problems at home fit well, because she using her imagination to block out the pain. She fakes happiness so that people like her. I think deep down inside Chantelle knows that she is alone but doesn't want to admit.
In real life she is very mean to other characters in the play, however she thinks she is being nice to them, because in her world everyone loves her. But really she is alone, she doesn't have any close friends. She spends all her free time alone at home, listening to her parents argue in the background.
I got this idea from Wicked the musical. My character is similar to Galinda, she is the Good Witch of the South, everyone in Oz loves her. However as the musical continues and you meet Elphaba, who is knows as the Wicked Witch of The West, and Galinda is very mean to her, but she doesn't realise it.
At the start of this unit we where given stimuli of song lyrics and we had to make a scene based around them. The lyrics were from a song called Family Portrait by Pink. These fit well with my character so we made a piece using them lyrics as inspiration. I think giving my character family problems at home fit well, because she using her imagination to block out the pain. She fakes happiness so that people like her. I think deep down inside Chantelle knows that she is alone but doesn't want to admit.
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
29th January 2013
On Tuesday we explored our characters more. We all sat in a circle and we have to think about how our characters would sit on a chair and freeze in that position. Because my character is very confident I thought she would sit up straight. I also thought she would sit with her legs closed on the chair, this is very child like.I think my character is very child like in some respects, in the way she moves and stands. We then had to think about why we where in detention. My character was in detention, because she was late to school. Stereotypical bitches are often late, because they don't really care about being on time, because they have other things to do.
After that we looked at Physical Theatre. We used videos of Morecambe and Wise and Cirque du Soleil, as stimuli to give us inspiration on how to use physical theatre, but how to also stay in character. We also got inspiration from Frantic Assembly. Frantic Assembly create pieces of theatre using unique physical theatre using music,movement, design and text. We watched this clip of a piece called Chair Duets. We used this as stimuli to create our opening scene.
We where then put into pairs and given 2 chairs and had to create a piece of physical theatre I had to work with Caprice, she plays Sophie the film buff. Because I think everyone loves me I think we are friends, however she doesn't really like me.We then fit the piece to music.
Ours starts by me flipping my hair and Sophie looking at me weird, then I start trying to get her attention by poking her. I thought this fits in well because my character is very chatty and wanted to talk to her. However she just ignores me and shuffles away from me, I shuffles closer to her. This continues until she falls off the chair. She then stands up and moves to the other chair and moves the chair away from me. After waiting a sort while, I decided to try to get her attention again. I shuffles my chair up to hers and tap her on her shoulder as she looks over I grab her and pull he over my lap, and start playing with her hair. While I play with her hair I find a spilt end, I then push her and she rolls off my lap. She stands up then sits back down onto her chair.
I like our piece as we can clearly see the different characters. Caprice moves around more than me, this shows that I have more power over her as I am the one that makes her move around. My character is really bossy and wants everyone to do what she wants them to, this comes across in our piece.
After that we looked at Physical Theatre. We used videos of Morecambe and Wise and Cirque du Soleil, as stimuli to give us inspiration on how to use physical theatre, but how to also stay in character. We also got inspiration from Frantic Assembly. Frantic Assembly create pieces of theatre using unique physical theatre using music,movement, design and text. We watched this clip of a piece called Chair Duets. We used this as stimuli to create our opening scene.
We where then put into pairs and given 2 chairs and had to create a piece of physical theatre I had to work with Caprice, she plays Sophie the film buff. Because I think everyone loves me I think we are friends, however she doesn't really like me.We then fit the piece to music.
Ours starts by me flipping my hair and Sophie looking at me weird, then I start trying to get her attention by poking her. I thought this fits in well because my character is very chatty and wanted to talk to her. However she just ignores me and shuffles away from me, I shuffles closer to her. This continues until she falls off the chair. She then stands up and moves to the other chair and moves the chair away from me. After waiting a sort while, I decided to try to get her attention again. I shuffles my chair up to hers and tap her on her shoulder as she looks over I grab her and pull he over my lap, and start playing with her hair. While I play with her hair I find a spilt end, I then push her and she rolls off my lap. She stands up then sits back down onto her chair.
I like our piece as we can clearly see the different characters. Caprice moves around more than me, this shows that I have more power over her as I am the one that makes her move around. My character is really bossy and wants everyone to do what she wants them to, this comes across in our piece.
17th January 2013
Today we built on work that we had done on Tuesday. We devised a short scene which had very stereotypical characters.
I played Chantelle the stereotypical bitch. To show that I was playing that character while I wasn't talking I did some miming, this is a divising technique, I mimied that I was doing my hair and reading a magizine. I did this because most stereotypical bitches care about there appearance and always want to look perfect.I also changed my tone of voice, to a more threatening tone.
I made fun of James who played Richard and Shannon who played Shannon.
After that we were given a sheet that had a verity of different divising techniques. We had to pick 1 to focus on and add it into the scene. We decided to add Docudrama and mime. We chose docudrama because it let each character say a bit more about themselves. We also chose mime, this is because while Jack was interviewing the other characters we would mime something our character would do.
Jack, interviewed each character.While he interviewed the other characters I filed my nails, read a magazine and did my hair. These were all things you would as a stereotypical bitch would do.
When he got to my character my character was sorting out her hair and make-up so she looked perfect on camera During this exercise I decided that my character would be very over confident and talkative. I showed this by telling the audience a lot about my character, however they were all this they didn't really need to know. When asked what I thought about my class mates. my character individually picked on each character, this showed the audience that my character was not this really happy, bubbly person on this inside she was really mean.
After that exercise we were given song lyrics, to us a stumilui. The song we were given was Family Portrait by Pink, this song is about a family who are going though a bad time. My group thought that this song worked best with my character, as it would explain a lot about why my character is the way she is.
At the start of our piece we had Chantelle and her friend picking on this girl who was looking at them. Then the scene changed, Chantelle was at home and her mum and dad were in the background fighting. While they were fighting I read a specific lyrics in the song that related to the action that was happening with her family. This was affective because you could how my character home life was. It was also very powerful, because the lyrics fit well and the seeing the mum and the dad fight silently behind was very moving.
I played Chantelle the stereotypical bitch. To show that I was playing that character while I wasn't talking I did some miming, this is a divising technique, I mimied that I was doing my hair and reading a magizine. I did this because most stereotypical bitches care about there appearance and always want to look perfect.I also changed my tone of voice, to a more threatening tone.
I made fun of James who played Richard and Shannon who played Shannon.
After that we were given a sheet that had a verity of different divising techniques. We had to pick 1 to focus on and add it into the scene. We decided to add Docudrama and mime. We chose docudrama because it let each character say a bit more about themselves. We also chose mime, this is because while Jack was interviewing the other characters we would mime something our character would do.
Jack, interviewed each character.While he interviewed the other characters I filed my nails, read a magazine and did my hair. These were all things you would as a stereotypical bitch would do.
When he got to my character my character was sorting out her hair and make-up so she looked perfect on camera During this exercise I decided that my character would be very over confident and talkative. I showed this by telling the audience a lot about my character, however they were all this they didn't really need to know. When asked what I thought about my class mates. my character individually picked on each character, this showed the audience that my character was not this really happy, bubbly person on this inside she was really mean.
After that exercise we were given song lyrics, to us a stumilui. The song we were given was Family Portrait by Pink, this song is about a family who are going though a bad time. My group thought that this song worked best with my character, as it would explain a lot about why my character is the way she is.
At the start of our piece we had Chantelle and her friend picking on this girl who was looking at them. Then the scene changed, Chantelle was at home and her mum and dad were in the background fighting. While they were fighting I read a specific lyrics in the song that related to the action that was happening with her family. This was affective because you could how my character home life was. It was also very powerful, because the lyrics fit well and the seeing the mum and the dad fight silently behind was very moving.
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