27/5/14

Describe the Expressionistic techniques you used in your 'Paperchase' scenes.

        -Explain how your movement changed form robot to human.

So, the 'Paperchase' scenes. Basically what we had to do was create a scene in which one character (in fact, the only truly 'human' character in the while scene) has a simple objective to complete. However, they encounter an obstacle which forces them the do something else first, and this continues to a surreal (see what I did there?) level. Because this is Expressionism, every character other than the main character is either a robot or a puppet controlled by a puppeteer (the puppeteers don't count as characters). This had the potential to be a really interesting piece.

And then the groups.

I was not in a good group. Nobody seemed to be on task. Cody almost was a few times, but the other group members really made it hard for him to concentrate. As such, I could barely get anyone to focus past the point of "Okay, what are we doing then?" (Seriously, it took 15 minutes to get the whole group the focus long enough to work out what the premise was, and then at least another 10 to work out the main character.) Eventually we worked out what Cody was trying to achieve (getting a cup of coffee for his boss, played by me because that was the first role we chose and no-one else was paying any attention) and what his obstacles would be (to some extent). We had a puppet in there, serving as the cashier of the coffee stand, and two robot serving as the ATM and Cody's boss, but nobody seemed to actually understand the concepts of that beyond the names.

And then the performance.

Actually, the performance itself wasn't so bad. It went according to plan (or at least, as much plan as we had). But it really didn't have any techniques, and was just kind of bland. Not to mention that nobody seemed able to focus either, so that didn't help.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising Cody. He's a really good worker, he was just in an easily-distracted mood today. Everyone else was feeling extra-distracted, and thus hasn't been named because they're really better than I've made them out to be in this entry. I just get upset easily.