Month: August 2020

Planning For The HL English Essay

Text We Looked At:

  • Atonement
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The Visit
  • The Worlds Wife
  • Home Fire
  • Antigone
  • Fun Home

 

Text Preference:

  • Atonement
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

 

Ideas For Line Of Inquiry:

  • Atonement:
    • Criminal Narrative:
      • The Villain – Paul Marshall:
        • McEwan seems to marginalise Paul’s criminality – not pursued or punished
      • The Victims:
        • Lola:
          • Lola is sidelined as a victim – Briony makes story about herself
          • Before the assault, Lola was a victim of her parents divorce
          • After the rape ….
        • Robbie:
          • Already victim of class distinctions – Emily Tallis doesn’t forgive him for getting a first from Cambridge
          • Falsely accused of crime he didn’t commit
        • Briony:
          • Victim of her emerging sexuality, inadequate parenting, biology, class and over imagination
        • Cecilia
          • Another victim of social obligation to her sister
          • Becomes an outcast because of her education
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest:

NIDA Voice Lessons – Day 3

Breathing Co-ordination

Alexandar ____ techniques

  • Getting body back into natural alignment
  • 1 technique: semi-supine position
    • get a book, lie on back, feet flat on floor, arms in t-shape
    • Breath, let gravity pull you down
    • Body will realign it’s self
      • Called constructive rest
  • Silent la la la
    • Coordinates the breath (slows it down)
    • Push against wall while speaking lines – keeps you grounded and energised

Feedback:

  • Do omnish (paints a picture)
  • Pushing against the wall (make endings more sharp)
  • Stop gloating
  • Don’t rest things for the sake of reciting them, give a perspective

 

NIDAOnline: NIDA Audition Preparation – Classical Monologues (Day 2)

  • you feel the words on the page and make them yours
    • Make your monologue true to you, make it sensor – make it more believable
  • When speaking a classical monologue, don’t speak in rhythm, try and speak normally.
  • Impatient of not hearing back from a text she sent
  • Fidgety
  • Frustrated
  • Angry
  • Upset at protese?
  • Happy letter was from protease

Feedback:

  • Go deeper into text
  • Find a person who who love not form you family – put face to nurse
    • Love her
    • Being mean to her
    • Know who the nurse is
    • Someone who is an older woman who you trust
  • can be a little skitzo – 14 year olds are a little skitzo when talking about love
  • Have to know how hot Romeo is – find that person in your life
    • Know how exciting that is

Challenge:

  • Understanding what’s happening

Success:

  • Get out of the rhythm

NIDA Online: The Creative Voice – Day 2

Focusing on the musicality the voice

Gurning:

  • Art of making silly faces

Omnish

  • More gurning will change the way you sound

Exercise:

  • Speak lines normally
  • Speak lines in Omnish
  • Speak lines normally again
  • Notice the differences

Reflection

  • Difficulties in speaking Omnish while speaking your lines (the same intention)
  • Change in pitch and pace
  • More animated in voice and facial expression
  • Difference between first and 3rd read
  • More emotion
  • Gives us more, range, color , texture
    • Sounds we’re not used to making these sounds
    • More range, color and texture we have make us sound more interesting
      • Breaks the usual rhythms we get stuck in

ABAB:

  • Get an idea of character playing though different tactics (e.g.: energise, fear, ..)
  • Get story/understanding of character
    • Commit to the words and actions creates the allusion of character
  • Pitch changes
  • vouls shift
  • Vocal energy can shift
  • Texture
  • change in speed and delivery
  • Break habit, change tactics
    • More variety and options
  • Hard with short word/phrase – can’t explore tactic much
  • Adding nuance to the word
    • Creates more depth to the story
  • Brings intention.
  • What do you want form the audience?