Imagination and creativity in Drama

Imagination can be very useful when creating any play or role play. This allows you to get creative and unique ideas to make a very succesful play. Today in drama class we made 2 role plays, both were not really succesful due to lack of teamwork and lack of imagination. The first play's task was to create a play in a small space (2m squared Aprox.) and give the audience the feeling that the story is happening in a small space.  We did a play about miners stuck in a mining elevator. For reference look at the picture below.

The second play was a bit similar, the only difference was that we were given a small stage but we had to make the auience feel as if it was a big place or environment. The stage was a little bit bigger than the first play. We made a play about people having a picnic in the mountains. Picture below for reference.

Later on we were gaven four objects to elaborate a game with rules. This was a challenge for imagination and creativity, We were gaven :

1)bamboo stick,

2)white string, 

3)empty trashcan 

4)bag sealer. 

We attached the string about 1.5m long to the bag sealer and then but the bag sealer inside the bamboo, then pull the string to pull the bag sealer out of the bamboo and then try to score in the trashcan with the bag sealer. Look at picture below for reference. ( the string is missing, this is after someone pulled the string)

Overall, this Drama lesson tought us that it is important to collaborate as a team to listen other's ideas so we can agree and look after flaws in everyoes ideas. It is also very important to be creative, because   people need to give good ideas to make a successful play. There are tons and millions of ways in which a play can be made. In addition it is also important that the actor is mentally in the play's world, this is to make the play look real and the actor to be really putting the emotion, to live as the character. Finally all these tips are essential to a drama play because there is no best idea but a serie of them can make a great one, listen to others, get into the play so it is possible to perform as professionally as possible, more vivastic and intersting.

Theater In Education Companies

Big Brum is a Theater in Education company in the UK, they had created a play called Barefaced.http://www.bigbrum.org.uk/

Hobgoblin is another Theater in Education company also located in the UK, they create plays for children, and have an extensive experience in theater in education. They write all their plays by themselves, making all of their products very original.http://hobgoblintheatrecompany.co.uk/

Konflux is a Theater In Education company located in the UK, their most popular play is "Play in a Day". Konflux is a succesful 18 year old comany. They have a lot of informative plays, some are about school subjects and some about safety, overall, their target audience are kids rather than adolecents.http://www.konfluxtheatre.co.uk/

Theater In Education Techniques

Theater in education includes 5 techniques, today in class we had practiced some of them

Tableaux, we had 2 students make a pose to create a visual stationary image to communicate a message. The picture below shows two students posing a fight.

There is also Improvisation, when the planning and creation process happen at the same time, it is a form of freedom, the art of improvisation can make actors be ready for any situation, in case there is a problem with something during the play. It is an important skill. Today me and Mr. Evans did an improvisation of a drama scene.

Role playing, role play is a short drama where students act as a specific character to perform a role play. There are numerous purposes in which role plays can be applied, for example, in language and literature classes.

Re-enancement, students perform an historical or futuristic event and perform it as the present.

Drama motivation

Today in class we did a game which consisted in: 

1) Individuals were told to move at different speed variating from 1-10 as 1 the slowest and 10 extremely fast.

2) When the instructor says "Freeze", everyone has to stay still until the instructor says any number which is the speed of movement the individuals would follow next.

3) The instructor can also say "Touch the floor","Change direction" or "Jump" randomly.

This game was very tiring, it was hard to stay in a still position for 30 aproximately. But it was really fun that when everybody was moving at a speed of 10 suddenly everyone froze, it was funny and very tiring.

This kind of class activity teaches us that if you think you can do it, then you can, you have to believe in yourself instead of having a negative thought at the start and thinking that something is impossible. "Everything seems impossible until it is done"-Nelson Mandela

Allways try before giving up, The chances of failing are 100% if you dont try.

Drama vocalizing

Today we made some vocalizing exercises there were exercies for improoving and finding our weaknesses in pronunciation and voice volume. In order for the people to understand what the play is about, they need to understand what are the actors saying, so as actors we need to practice the pronunciation and voice volume to make the play comprehensible. This is important because if there is no understanding about the play, then the message the play wants to communicate cannot be understood. Therefore the play would be a failed product.

Lighting in Drama

In a drama play there are lights to make the stage iluminated and to make some special effects, this is useful to be able to create what the directior of the play wants to make. There are 14 lights in our Utahloy drama studio at the moment.

These lights can be used to make different kind of effects, for a shadow, use a single very strong light for 3D texture use lighting as a triangle to eliminate the shadows at the back. The picture below shows a picture of shadow effects.

These lighting effects are very special to a drama play because they can change the emotion of the play, by making it darker for more serious and terrorific effects, or brighter for happy plays. The lights can also affect the audience's attention, a focus light can make the audience look at something without having to tell them to. The picture below enphasizes the shadow of the character.

Lighting color can also be changed to different colors with color panels. Picture below shows a panel that if placed in the light can change the color to yellow.

3 parts of the reflection

Today we learnt how to write a reflection and divide it in 3 parts which are Descriptive, Personal and reflection, i think it is a good method and is easily understandable because it is focused in one topic each paragraph.

What is reflection?

Today we created a Blog for our Drama class ussing blogger

I think that blogging is a new kind of classwork that i had never done before, and im not familiar with it, but i hope that as time passes i can become better at it. We also made some posters that show what we are familiar with and unfamiliar with, concepts we use in drama.  Today we wrote our first blog.