ALL EXPLORATION NOTES
Exploration Notes
Vocal awareness: 205 words
In the play ‘Blood Wedding’ the character; the Moon has very evil, chilling and blood thirsty characteristics. To make an impact, I entered the stage reciting the line, singing in a high pitched voice. I projected from my throat to create a croaky tone of voice and elongated the words as if we are singing a nursery rhyme. This created a spooky and eyrie entrance. One effective technique we used was to speak in unison, for dramatic effect. “They shall not escape” the 2 actors on the sides of me projected their voice and scrunched their face whilst speaking from the throat which gave an almost witch like cry as they cackled the line together. After pushing me onto the floor I spoke through my nose to have a wicked and nasally tone of voice which made the line “who is hiding? And “Who is sobbing?” very cynical and bloodthirsty. As 3 actors played the moon, we decided to say the line “I am cold” in a chorus. We all stood centre stage in a line. The person on the far left said the line first and we all followed and repeated the line one after each. I said the line in a tremulous tone and whispered the line to show the audience we were cold creatures of the night.
Language: 193 words
In the play Blood wedding we explored the language of Lorca in the scene where the bride and Leonardo run off together. The Language is written in poetry and this is the first time humans in the play speak in poetry. I believe Lorca’s Intention was to heighten this scene. The language is a lot more intense, biblical and non-naturalistic and the aim for the actor is to create an impact. Such phrases like “splinters of glass are stuck in my tongue,” created this lovelorn almost tormented nature of their love and we had to portray the hardship of the relationship. One exercise we did to create a heighten performance was to have me Leonardo and the Bride opposite me being dragged away from each other by other actors and whilst reciting the lines
Vocal awareness: 205 words
In the play ‘Blood Wedding’ the character; the Moon has very evil, chilling and blood thirsty characteristics. To make an impact, I entered the stage reciting the line, singing in a high pitched voice. I projected from my throat to create a croaky tone of voice and elongated the words as if we are singing a nursery rhyme. This created a spooky and eyrie entrance. One effective technique we used was to speak in unison, for dramatic effect. “They shall not escape” the 2 actors on the sides of me projected their voice and scrunched their face whilst speaking from the throat which gave an almost witch like cry as they cackled the line together. After pushing me onto the floor I spoke through my nose to have a wicked and nasally tone of voice which made the line “who is hiding? And “Who is sobbing?” very cynical and bloodthirsty. As 3 actors played the moon, we decided to say the line “I am cold” in a chorus. We all stood centre stage in a line. The person on the far left said the line first and we all followed and repeated the line one after each. I said the line in a tremulous tone and whispered the line to show the audience we were cold creatures of the night.
Language: 193 words
In the play Blood wedding we explored the language of Lorca in the scene where the bride and Leonardo run off together. The Language is written in poetry and this is the first time humans in the play speak in poetry. I believe Lorca’s Intention was to heighten this scene. The language is a lot more intense, biblical and non-naturalistic and the aim for the actor is to create an impact. Such phrases like “splinters of glass are stuck in my tongue,” created this lovelorn almost tormented nature of their love and we had to portray the hardship of the relationship. One exercise we did to create a heighten performance was to have me Leonardo and the Bride opposite me being dragged away from each other by other actors and whilst reciting the lines