Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Practical works
The "invisible ball"
In a circle we are suppose to throw a ball to another person, BUT an invisible one. It was so interesting to see a different kind of "ball" being passed around and across as this ball is changeable. it is different on a different person hands. It could be really big and round, it could be small but heavy, light and flying away!
Counting 1 to 20
This is one tricky game! It sound really simple as the instruction goes: in a circle, looking down, everyone is suppose to say a number from 1 to 20, one after another. No sequence is supposed to be instructed and person beside you cannot say after you had said. It was not until the game start did you realise how hard it was! As you have no idea who will say next! If two person say the same number out together, whole game starts from number 1 again.
So anyway, we actually did it the FIRST ROUND! =D amazing! Even Prue said that this was the first time she go through the first round without stopping!
One really fun game we played today. We are suppose to be like two 3d television screen with a volume adjustment on it. Group A to depict a noisy party scene and Group B to depict a quiet and slow motioned party scene. Instruction was for Group A to slowly slows down and quieten down and for Group B to slowly increase the speed and volume!
The 3 taxi stories
We are being expose to this way of performing called the "Within, On the edge and Outside"
There will be three scenes going on in a same play. They can start at the same time or continue after the scene before that has ended.
This is the script that my group had presented:
Our within is the father, mother and the son. Our Edge is the nurses in the centre.
Planning a Drama Lesson
We have to tell the class the purpose of the lesson. What is it for? Why do we need to learn it.
When we have games in the lesson, we have to tell the students the purpose of the games. After playing the game, a small discussion will be good. We may ask the students about their thoughts, and ask them what they had learnt from it. Even if the respond isn't what the teacher expect, teacher could reply by saying " We all respond differently. The reason I do this exercise is because______ however, you discovered a different thing!"
Whatever we did in lesson, a reflection in the end is quite important as it is the one that helps students link with the things they had just exposed to.
10:36 pm sprinklinq HaPpInEsS Y
The "invisible ball"
In a circle we are suppose to throw a ball to another person, BUT an invisible one. It was so interesting to see a different kind of "ball" being passed around and across as this ball is changeable. it is different on a different person hands. It could be really big and round, it could be small but heavy, light and flying away!
Skills practiced:
- As no talking is allow, we have to be really attentive in who is holding onto the ball and who is the person holding the ball passing it to?
- Focus on the "ball" you are holding to! if it is big and heavy it should land on your hand that way before you transform it into some other size and weight and make sure you show it well! So that the next person knows exactly how the ball looks like.
Counting 1 to 20
This is one tricky game! It sound really simple as the instruction goes: in a circle, looking down, everyone is suppose to say a number from 1 to 20, one after another. No sequence is supposed to be instructed and person beside you cannot say after you had said. It was not until the game start did you realise how hard it was! As you have no idea who will say next! If two person say the same number out together, whole game starts from number 1 again.
So anyway, we actually did it the FIRST ROUND! =D amazing! Even Prue said that this was the first time she go through the first round without stopping!
Skill practiced:
- Focus on the "energy" in the atmosphere is how i can describe what is going on in my head. As looking down, without any eye contact, we have no idea who will take the next step in saying out the next number. There were long pauses and short pauses, the rhythm of us shouting out the number is totally random.
- Focus on the sound being made by people around you. When someone is about to say something there is this very very soft sound made by the lips. At least when I heard similar sound I will just wait for my next turn.
- Tension within myself. I was quite tensed up when i haven't gotten my chance to say out the number as there is high possibility that others will just wait for someone to shout out the next number. As I shout out the number, it was even more scary as I am afraid someone else will shout at the same time as me.
One really fun game we played today. We are suppose to be like two 3d television screen with a volume adjustment on it. Group A to depict a noisy party scene and Group B to depict a quiet and slow motioned party scene. Instruction was for Group A to slowly slows down and quieten down and for Group B to slowly increase the speed and volume!
- You start to become more aware of your movement and gesture when you are in the process of changing to a scenario of a different mood.
- Not only are we focusing on our actions and sound we make, we have to take note of our groupmates actions and the sound they make too so that the whole group can increase or decrease the speed and volume together.
The 3 taxi stories
We are being expose to this way of performing called the "Within, On the edge and Outside"
There will be three scenes going on in a same play. They can start at the same time or continue after the scene before that has ended.
This is the script that my group had presented:
Our within is the father, mother and the son. Our Edge is the nurses in the centre.
Planning a Drama Lesson
We have to tell the class the purpose of the lesson. What is it for? Why do we need to learn it.
When we have games in the lesson, we have to tell the students the purpose of the games. After playing the game, a small discussion will be good. We may ask the students about their thoughts, and ask them what they had learnt from it. Even if the respond isn't what the teacher expect, teacher could reply by saying " We all respond differently. The reason I do this exercise is because______ however, you discovered a different thing!"
Whatever we did in lesson, a reflection in the end is quite important as it is the one that helps students link with the things they had just exposed to.
10:36 pm sprinklinq HaPpInEsS Y
Sunday, September 04, 2011
We started by playing this game called Dog Cat Mouse. This is a really really fun game BUT everyone was confused! It really take some time for us to figure it out physically and mentally. We are all supposed to pair up and two people starts the game. One to be the cat and one to be the mouse. Apparently the cat has to catch the mouse and where the mouse go?!
The mouse has to run to a pair and hold one of their hand and once they hold hand, the partner that is not being held becomes the dog! and the dog has to chase the cat off. and where the cat run?! the cat find another partner to hold hand with and the partner that is not being held became a bigger dog to chase that dog off.
Follow by Dogs and bones. Everyone to Sit in a circle except one person in the middle. This person have to guide a chain of key right infront of him/her. he/ she has to close the eyes while people around slowly quietly move in whatever ways they could towards this person. (Crawling is the quietest i guess thus all of us look lik dogs!) Once this person point onto one direction, the person that is at that direction has to go back to the circle. Once somebody get hold of the key, everyone has to return to the circle and someone has to keep the key and the person in the middle can finally open the eyes to guess who has the key! That is the fun part, because everyone copies the action of the person who has the key! For example the person has two hands hiding at the back, most of us did the same thing too! Some of our expression is really decieving though and the expression of the person who has the key has to be really natural!
Floowed by Murderers.
1:05 am sprinklinq HaPpInEsS Y
The mouse has to run to a pair and hold one of their hand and once they hold hand, the partner that is not being held becomes the dog! and the dog has to chase the cat off. and where the cat run?! the cat find another partner to hold hand with and the partner that is not being held became a bigger dog to chase that dog off.
Tensions:
- Tension in not knowing whether you are the person catching or you are the person running away!
- Tension in anticipating who is the mouse running to and if he/she hold your hand your tension decresed but your partner get all excited as he/she has to think about the first tension mentioned above.
Follow by Dogs and bones. Everyone to Sit in a circle except one person in the middle. This person have to guide a chain of key right infront of him/her. he/ she has to close the eyes while people around slowly quietly move in whatever ways they could towards this person. (Crawling is the quietest i guess thus all of us look lik dogs!) Once this person point onto one direction, the person that is at that direction has to go back to the circle. Once somebody get hold of the key, everyone has to return to the circle and someone has to keep the key and the person in the middle can finally open the eyes to guess who has the key! That is the fun part, because everyone copies the action of the person who has the key! For example the person has two hands hiding at the back, most of us did the same thing too! Some of our expression is really decieving though and the expression of the person who has the key has to be really natural!
Tensions:
- Tension of the person in the middle right from the beginning as this person cannot open his/her eyes so all the senses except for the eyes have to be well alert and listen carefully to who is crawling towards him/her
- Tension in the people crawling towards the person anticipating when will him/her notice about the movement made
- Tension on the person who has the key, nervous whether his/her expression is natural enough to cover up his/her nervousness.
- Tension on the rest of the people on when will the culprit be caught!
Floowed by Murderers.
1:05 am sprinklinq HaPpInEsS Y
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