It looks like I'm returning to the old format just for this entry. Instead of a question to answer like usual, we instead have a summary of today's events to expand upon, just like we used to!
I don't actually know if that's a good or bad thing, or is it's permanent, or anything, but here we go.
The first thing we did was very much a physical exercise. I guess it counts as a warmup since we didn't do anything else first. Basically, each person was given a chair. They then created 5 different poses (or was it 6? I honestly can't remember, there were so many and they were all so similar) on different levels - high, medium, low, and then two (or three) combinations of levels, which are always difficult to work out how to do.
Then we walked around the room while music played, and when it stopped we were told to recreate a certain one of our poses on the nearest chair. This became difficult after a while, not so much because of the physical aspect as because of the mental strain of trying to remember all of those abnormal positions and their numbers.
Eventually it turned into a game of musical chairs, with one chair being removed each round. I stayed in for a while, but I certainly didn't come close to winning.
Next was one of my personal favourites - The Bear of Pontier. This is a game that can take multiple forms and can have multiple names, but it's always the same one underneath. Essentially, one person is the "bear" (or some other designation, depending on the 'skin' applied to the game) and everyone else takes on the role of woodcutters (or similar). The idea of the game is that all the 'woodcutters' have to pretend to be dead, trees, or in a similar non-moving state of existence. The 'bear' can then use any method that does not involve physical contact to make the woodcutters laugh or otherwise move.
Now, there were two variations on this base in the game we played. For one, when a woodcutter breaks they do not sit out; instead, they become a bear as well. The other variation I only discovered once I was already lying down, frozen and "dead". Apparently, unlike the usual method of playing this, it was not compulsory to keep one's eyes open. I only discovered this at all because people commented on my bravery for keeping my eyes open. So as far as I know, I was the only one with eyes open at all, which may provide some benefit but is mostly detrimental in this situation, and I still managed to be one of the three winners (apparently none of us could be broken so we were all crowned winners). That's why I like this game. It's one of the few games that I'm really any good at.
Finally, we did an interesting exercise. We were divided into groups of four or five (some groups had four, mine five) and created, in about 10 seconds each, freezes depicting four situations - bullying, sexual harassment, exclusion and subversion. Each group then had its best freeze chosen by the other groups and was given some advice on how to make it better and more realistic, and then recreated it.
My group was given 'subversion', and we did a fair job of it I guess. It did get the idea across well, but apparently there was no way we could hold our imaginary knives behind Adam's back in a way that both conveyed the right intention and was visible to the audience, so I guess that was a little problem.
So I've got a new fairly-permanent image, this time made by me. This will continue to appear at the bottom of most posts, for a while at least.
Then we walked around the room while music played, and when it stopped we were told to recreate a certain one of our poses on the nearest chair. This became difficult after a while, not so much because of the physical aspect as because of the mental strain of trying to remember all of those abnormal positions and their numbers.
Eventually it turned into a game of musical chairs, with one chair being removed each round. I stayed in for a while, but I certainly didn't come close to winning.
Next was one of my personal favourites - The Bear of Pontier. This is a game that can take multiple forms and can have multiple names, but it's always the same one underneath. Essentially, one person is the "bear" (or some other designation, depending on the 'skin' applied to the game) and everyone else takes on the role of woodcutters (or similar). The idea of the game is that all the 'woodcutters' have to pretend to be dead, trees, or in a similar non-moving state of existence. The 'bear' can then use any method that does not involve physical contact to make the woodcutters laugh or otherwise move.
Now, there were two variations on this base in the game we played. For one, when a woodcutter breaks they do not sit out; instead, they become a bear as well. The other variation I only discovered once I was already lying down, frozen and "dead". Apparently, unlike the usual method of playing this, it was not compulsory to keep one's eyes open. I only discovered this at all because people commented on my bravery for keeping my eyes open. So as far as I know, I was the only one with eyes open at all, which may provide some benefit but is mostly detrimental in this situation, and I still managed to be one of the three winners (apparently none of us could be broken so we were all crowned winners). That's why I like this game. It's one of the few games that I'm really any good at.
Finally, we did an interesting exercise. We were divided into groups of four or five (some groups had four, mine five) and created, in about 10 seconds each, freezes depicting four situations - bullying, sexual harassment, exclusion and subversion. Each group then had its best freeze chosen by the other groups and was given some advice on how to make it better and more realistic, and then recreated it.
My group was given 'subversion', and we did a fair job of it I guess. It did get the idea across well, but apparently there was no way we could hold our imaginary knives behind Adam's back in a way that both conveyed the right intention and was visible to the audience, so I guess that was a little problem.
So I've got a new fairly-permanent image, this time made by me. This will continue to appear at the bottom of most posts, for a while at least.
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