Exercises

Tension State:

We wanted to know in our monologues what every part of our body was doing and how it shows tension and different tension states. We did this by walking around the room in neutral walking into the free space. I decided to use my character of Sophie. I decided that all the tension would be in her face. this is due to her being naive and polite. So even though the tension in het face she tries not to show it. This could be shown through raised eyebrows to show her disparagement and the shock in her face.

Body Parts:

We then went on to a exercise where we got told which body part to lead with. We did this by walking around the room and being told what body part to lead with and also using characterisation. e.g. leading with chest, showing you're in power, looking down on lower class. You are maybe a king. 

I decided to use my character Angela for this. She's leading with her forehead because she's very forceful and powerful, but is also ill and unwell so it makes her look vulnerable.

Animal Characteristics:

We thought about what kind of animals our character would be. I decided that Sophie would be a mouse and Angela would be a cat. I decided this because Sophie is quite quiet and doesn't like to be mean to anybody and is quite polite. Angela is a cat because she can be nice, but also has a nasty streak to her when she wants to and cats are quite dominating and want attention.