Devising- Monday 7th september

The lesson began by us being told that we would being devising for our next unit which was going to involve work shopping our ideas and doing a great deal of research into the different ideas we get from the stimulus and how we would make these ideas most effective. Today's lesson was working on our voices skills as they are weaker then our physical acting skill and working on focusing and in turn helping us improve characterisation and staying in character. 
We began with playing a game of freeze tag which was letting a scene develop then freezing it and stepping in and changing the situation. We had to make sure that every scene that we did was serious and had no sense of comedy to it. When I stepped in I changed the situation so Dan.s  and I where a father and daughter in an argument about why I wasn't allowed out and we continued from there. Then Theo froze Dan out where he then turned the scene into a romantic scene and he came towards me straight away for a hug and I lost focus as I was really confused on what he was doing so I began laughing nervously. Then we started the scene and Theo took it in another direction and began getting angry at me as he wanted money for drugs and while i was trying to help him he was getting more upset. Then I got froze out. 
Once we finished this exercise we moved onto a focus exercise where we began laying on the floor with calming music playing and started to make our breaths deeper. Mr Webb then spoke us through a serious of places in our minds to help us feel heavier and more focused then he started to add a situation to our exercise of us being in thick mud with a pain in our shoulder and how we are struggling to stand up. One we had stood he told us to get into pairs then we had to go straight into a scene where one person had be left shot in a trench and you had come back to help them. Meg was glad to see me when I came to help her and we went for a helping hand approach where as other pairs were more aggressive with each other. 
Over all in the lesson it helped us to gain more focus as actors and how to control ourselves more. This will help with getting into character more and finding deeper meaning to your character too.