The HunChback

description

Last week was pretty intense, reason why I did not write my blog. But that that does not mean I do not have to do last week's blog. So here it is. Last week I fully developed my character by adding a hunchback. I also learnt more about German Expressionism and I had the wonderful experience to watch a play were the structure was dream-reality-dream just like our play is going to be.

analysis

Firstly, I woul like to start with my character. By the begging of last week I thought that the hunchback would not help my character at all. This was because I have never heard about doing a hunchback and I did not like the idea at all. But as an actress I listen to my director and tried the proposal. The hunchback completely changed the way a saw my character as It brought life and grotesque to it. It was wonderful! I is incredible how a prop changes your body expression. I kept the way of walking of my character. But I add more things to it and made it more expressionist. This taught me not only to listen to my director but that small things like a hunchback can contribute a lot in the developing of your character.

Moreover, last week I also learnt more about german expressionism. We went through conventions in order to apply them to our character and our play. Is really intresting how things transform as we learn more. We finishing the writing of our scripts. Because of analysing the plays I was able to get ideas from the dreams of masses and man. And make a dream like scene in another perspective and using some ideas from the play. This helped me into the undestanding of german expressiosm that dreams can be distorted and insane! But obviously following the conventions and exploring feelings.

Furthermore, we went to watch a play called proyeccion privada. This is were I realise how theory and practice differ! All this time we were talking about making the game of the play reality-dream- reality but I had never seen that before. In this play we were able to appreciate this and the most important thing was that the dreams were in green light. This totally relates to our play were we intent to put color to our dreams. This gave me a whole new perspective of our play because something is to be told about it and another thing is actually see it in practice. Now I have more ideas for the dreams and how to connected with the scenes as to create different levels of reality. This play also taught me that the use of props is really essential for the play because otherwise it looks dull and less attractive to the audience. There are thing that definetely we should apply to out play. For example the clock at the dream. Because they lighted it meanwhile they were in a dream. Apart from looking amazing it shows the relativity of the time.

connections

There were several connections. First of all Shadow Queendom because was hard to understand if we did not use props and this was the way to differenciate characters as many people were the same character. This contribute the fact that the props help you develop more the character like my hunchback. This also was presented in El valle oscuro as the props really contributed into the characters because it was a really dynamic play. Also there is a connection of Confesiones because each character was way different from the other and this was achieve by the body expression but also by the props that contribute the characterization.

reflection

In that week I learnt a lot about characters and key things that help it develop more. The fact that we went to see another play gave me new perspective of our play and brand new ideas to be applied in the process of our because it is wonderful how another reality is created by the lightning and the use of props. But also by the actions of the characters that seem to be unreal which make us differenciate the levels of reality. I also learnt that we never actually finish learning as we improve by time. I dont know if i could develop more my character as i just realise that is possible to create more stuff to go with it. Also by learning more german expressionism conventions we can apply more to our play and actually understand why this things present. I actually learnt that the grotesque is because they want to reject traditional conventions to see the people in a fix way thats why they make their characters be exaggerated in every sense. They imagine how people will really act if there was not a society with tell them the correct way of behaving. I also learnt to use close shoes instead of sandals while going to watch a play because you can get injured like me ):

final question

Is my character finished? How to you accomplish a perfect dream scene? How do we manage to develop new actions? Will my foot ever heal?