This lesson was heavily based on our script and marking beat changes.
Uniting
We began by looking at Uniting and what it consists of.
We first started by stating that 'Drama is conflict'; by this we mean that there are highs and lows, and also characters are complex meaning that there is more beneath the characters than what the audience see on stage.
By making beat changes, we can clearly communicate the changes in thought and mood to the audience. A beat is a section of the text in which mini objectives are pursued and attained or blocked, therefore changing the dynamic of the action.
Beats are often marked by a colon or a dash; they often mean the exit or entrance of a character, a change of subject matter, a silence, a moment of inaction, or a change in character behaviour.
Effective beats should show when we peace them together and they flow seamlessly, making a strong structure.
Stanislavsky asked the actors to give each section a title to remember them (almost a poetic title or something which is emotionally rooted, meaning it shouldn't just be a normal, logical description.
Rehearsing Individually
For the remainder of the lesson, after marking and naming our beat changes, we were given the opportunity to rehearse our scenes with our scene partners.
As I play Thea with two seperate groups of people, we all went to a music practice room and began to rehearse.
I found this time to be quite useful as it gave us an opportunity to gather some ideas on how we all thought the scenes could be played out. This also gave us time to learn our lines with someone to respond to instead of learning them on your own.
However, the issue that rose was that I often found it quite hard to focus when I was with a group of friends without the guidance of a teacher although overall we got quite a bit of work done.
Emotion Memory Task
In another part of our lesson, we did an emotion memory task. We lay in semisupine with our eyes closed while Jack was talking to us about memories.
He asked us to pick a memory where we were most happy with our lives, a time where there was nothing to worry about and we were just happy.
He went on to talking about how happy we feel and how we would be feeling 'golden' and 'glowing'.
Although I understood why this exercise would be effective for using my emotion memory in scenes, I found that this exercise did not work for me. This is because I struggled to find a memory because I then went back and thought of a negative memory that followed, or my happy memory was interrupted by me remembering a negative memory, which then affected my mood in a bad way instead of a good way. I feel as if the exercise would have been easier for me if I did less overthinking.
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