Body

Today we were working on how to portray emotion not just through what your saying but through your body, especially your eyes. I think this really adds to a performance and helps to put across the emotion of the characters without it becoming to over the top and cheesy, which may not be appropriate for the audience. We did lots of different exercises using mime so we had to get across the emotion without speech, this will help us with our physicality and gestures when doing our story telling. To help us with this, we related the story or emotion we had to feel to what we have felt or experienced in the pass and so it is believable and we can relate to the story. Also we mimed a couple of scenes, for example being in McDonald's which I found quite difficult as I do not find it easy to act in an over the top manner just with my body and gestures. To get the feeling of emotion portrayed through our eyes we posed as statues and then had to show a random emotion just through our eyes without moving. I think this is a really useful skill as we can use it in many forms of acting and it will really add to the story telling.