in class writing

in class writing

On monday, we did exercises about creating moments based on words from the     Laramie Project. Firstly, we created moments by ourselves, this process is interesting because we saw how different individuals interpret the same word differently which results in different elements incorporated in the moments we created. When Maddie was doing the word “indifference”, she used her facial expressions of disregarding and movements of turning around to show the narrative of giving no attention. And for me, I created a moment that I show absolutely no change in my gestures and facial expressions with a neutral stance to show that there is nothing affecting me. The different ways of interpreting “indifference” are both valid but have different dynamics, so when our group starts working on the project, we also hope to explore the different possibilities of expressing the solid idea with various theatrical elements to see what narratives can we create. 

Also, we incorporated one text into our moment. The text is powerful because it created the background and refined what is happening on stage. Because of the idea that every theatrical elements are equally important in telling the story, we want to explore how can text not dictate the narrative, instead, utilizing every element to express the story.

At the end of the class, we were trying to put every moment we created as small groups into a whole narrative. At first, we were confused because the connection between each moment is not explicit and there is not a clear storyline. But afterwards, we found the common theme in each moment that there is a symbol of power, so we decided to connect the stories through the sign of power, and we utilized the consecutive sequencing to put moments in order which is when one moment is happening, other moments freeze. This process helps me better understand how can we construct the narrative after creating moments. Also, it is vital to do it on our feet first instead of planning everything out because only through acting it out can we find what the natural instincts are and how can we improve that.

Different exercises

• the same thing we did in class, write words related to human nature and create small moments then connect them
• experimenting viewpoints with the lights, and see how the lighting affect what we interact with each other