We began this lesson by finishing off our masks, we added elastic to the back of the mask to keep them on our faces when we are moving around . We then decided to do a character warm up with our masks to give us more of an idea of what are characters will be like in our performance. I personally believe the masks really help with our focus during the lessons as they help to keep us in character, therefore if we want to speak as ourselves we have to turn to the wall and take our mask off and then talk in the hopes it won't destroy the illusion of having our characters different to our real selves.
We decided as we were getting into the idea of characters we ran a character profile exercise in the hopes we will pick up character traits to help us with our scenes.
We then ran through a physical warm up, this is important for us to reduce the risk of getting an injury.
After this we brainstormed new ideas for our scenes. We spent the lesson creating a thought chart of how we want our scenes to work and what we want in them.
We started with the setting- We agreed on two different ideas we would create scenes for and see which one we preferred, these were a wedding story line and a restaurant story line. We used this lesson to work on the restaurant idea, we worked out who we wanted in our restaurant to match our characters personalities, therefore we decided on guests, manager, head chef, dishwasher and waiter.
We decided we wanted The Doctor and Pantalone to be the guests, we wanted Brighella to be the manager, Il Capitano to be the head chef, Colombina and Harlequin to be the waiters and Zanni to be the dish washer.
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