28/4/14

Drama Journal: 28/4/14

Continued our new unit of Non-Realism - apparently I missed the first lesson of this (despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any lesson recently) because we were halfway through a task that I had no idea was even happening.

We watched a few videos of drama performances, both realistic and non-realistic, and noted how such techniques as movement, sound and transitions (and a few others) were used.

I feel the need to include an image at this point, because blogs usually have images strewn throughout their posts.

There we go, much better.

So. We then engaged in a few basic practical activities to bring us back into the swing of things for the new term. I honestly do not feel like explaining 'You' again, please refer to one of my older (non-blog) journals for this.

Finally, it has been requested that I talk about my opinions on how non-realism compares to realism. I haven't had much experience with non-realism so far, but it seems that non-realism allows for a wider range of performance and character choices, as well as (perhaps) making it potentially easier to cover mistakes and flubs with nonsensical improvisation - since the rest of it is also nonsensical, the audience probably won't even notice.

That didn't feel like a proper way to end this entry, so:

THE END

Much better.