weeks review

This week we focused on story telling to different audiences. We stuck mainly to different age groups. This ranged from 5-80 years old. We were told to walk around the room and say a line from a story or.just a line that the age group would be interested in the most. For example if the age groups was 5 years old you may begin with "once upon a time". You may raise your voice and use big and obvious hand and body gestures. We were then told to keep our body still and engage the audience by our voices. We were told to tell the story of "Little red riding hood". One by one we would come up and say line from the story, but how we say it depends on what age group we receive. I found myself thinking more about what to say rather than how to say it. After a while we all found it pretty easy. We were then told to tell the story of a typically adult book to children using body and vocal Techniques. We made a joke of it first but I found it hard to tell an inappropriate story to children and keep a straight face. After some practise I learnt how to adapt my voice to fit community's.

weeks lesson

This week we focused on how we can show emotions in different ways. In our first few weeks we did the basic story telling techniques. We focused on how to tell a story or show emotion through our body's. On Tuesdays lesson we focused on showing emotion through eyes. At first I didn't quite grasp the concept. I didn't understand how you can show emotion without changing anything on your face. We were asked to stand in a position and keep our face emotionless. We were then told an emotion for example "Scared". We were then told to show that emotion through our eyes. Almost instantly everyone's face changed. At first I found it hard to keep my face still, I rely on my facial expressions heavily when trying to portray an emotion. We were then told to think of a time when we were scared, and try to 're-live that moment. This is what helped me enhance my eyes. My problem was I was trying too change who I was, I was pretending to be some one else and I was thinking of completely unrealistic scare moments. But when I related it to my past experiences, it was easier to show emotion because I was actually able to 're-live the situation, remembering exactly how I felt. Without realizing my eyes changed and I was able to capture that feeling and skill. On Fridays lesson we focused on articulation in story telling. We were told to get into a line and sound out our vowels. We were told to really over pronotunciate each vowel. We then took it in turns to sound out a vowel. At first I got embarrassed and felt I looked stupid. I have a big problem with letting loose in lessons, I feel as though I look stupid if I do. But after seeing everyone else do it I felt better. I learnt that articulating your words make the audience more interested, forcing them to listen because you 're able to cature their attention.