In this lesson, we learnt about "Sculpting", and how somebodies body language affects the way a scene or shot is read. We were tasked, in paris, to sculpt each other based on a word Dan gave us. It was interesting to see how even the most minute detail could mean the difference between accurately and successfully portraying what a character was doing or not.
Lesson 2
In this particular lesson, we learnt about the concept of "Status". Dan gave us a card at random from a standard deck of cards, and that number represented our status - Ace being low, 10 being high. We then, one by one, had to enter the room in front of everyone, introduce ourselves, and then leave, while trying to accurately portray the number we had been given. The rest of the group then had to guess our number/status.
Lesson 3
In our last lesson, the first exercise we had to do was pretend we were in an old Western Saloon. One person was designated as being "The Most Feared Gunslinger in The West". They would leave the room, and everyone else would act loud and rowdy. Then, when the other person entered the room, everyone had to, in unison, go completely silent, creating an air of tension as the Gunslinger walked across to the makeshift bar, said the word "Whiskey", drink the drink, and leave. Then when they had left, we had to resume the level of noise we had before the Gunslinger came in. This showed us that status can be given to a single character by all the other characters in the room, rather than the character determining their own.
One of the other exercises we did involved Improvisation. Three people at a time would go up in front of the rest of the group, and be given a setting or scenario. They then had to act out this scenario, but with one person sitting, one standing, and one laying down. This taught us a valuable lesson in the concept of staging, as we realised that not only did we need to be conscious of what we were doing, but that we also needed to be aware of what the other two were doing.
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