Story Telling Skills Part 1

Today we worked on our story telling skills for saying the details in the story that gives the story and characters emotions we show as well as how much emotion we give. In lesson we were practicing how to show emotion only using our eyes by standing still in a statue and then performing an emotion that was given to us only using our eyes. This activity then became showing an emotion using our body but not our face, after we showed how we moved with the emotion we then had to be un-naturalistic and do it again but making every movement as big as possible. We were then given a places like McDonalds to perform a scene that we would act out as a character we create in as much detail as possible, we would then freeze at a random part of the scene were we would explain our character, what their purpose is to why they are where they are, where they work and what they were planning to do later that day, everything we said had to go into great detail. My character I made was lonely banker who worked at Lloyds’ as the bank as the bank manager who is on his lunch break at McDonalds, I would be working late until 8, who would then go to rent the first die hard film which he would watch then go to bed, my character also had no pets, friends or relationships so was very lonely. This was character I created and had to show in the piece we created in McDonalds. Things would then happen in the scene and we would have to react the same way our character would. We did this big McDonald piece as a big group then we split and did it again but with different places and characters.