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Week 2 was all about sensory awareness. How do actors use their ability to smell, taste, touch/feel, hear, and see to make their acting better?
In both classes, we listened to the video below, based on the wonderful book Tuesday by David Wiesner. Students discussed the sounds they heard, and what could possibly be going on in the scenes. Who would have guessed it was flying frogs?
With the younger kids, we enjoyed re-watching the muted video and trying to imitate as many of the sounds they heard as possible! We then got on stage, with our voices all warmed up, and worked on the story of Chicken Little. With a combination of call-and-response line readings and enthusiastic sound effects, it wasn't hard to bring the little chicken to life!
In the older class, listened to even more scenes (a busy street and a farm) and it was amazing the questions they were able to answer about what was going on. Without any images, the kids knew that the truck they heard was "old", one even telling me it was red. The knew which moments happened in the morning, and which came at night. Some where able to answer questions of what they smelled -- dirt, fried food from street vendors, car exhaust, manure, etc -- just from hearing a recording.
It was a very successful week with both classes, and I can't wait to get to week 3 to see how much more we can all learn together!
Week 2 was all about sensory awareness. How do actors use their ability to smell, taste, touch/feel, hear, and see to make their acting better?
In both classes, we listened to the video below, based on the wonderful book Tuesday by David Wiesner. Students discussed the sounds they heard, and what could possibly be going on in the scenes. Who would have guessed it was flying frogs?
With the younger kids, we enjoyed re-watching the muted video and trying to imitate as many of the sounds they heard as possible! We then got on stage, with our voices all warmed up, and worked on the story of Chicken Little. With a combination of call-and-response line readings and enthusiastic sound effects, it wasn't hard to bring the little chicken to life!
In the older class, listened to even more scenes (a busy street and a farm) and it was amazing the questions they were able to answer about what was going on. Without any images, the kids knew that the truck they heard was "old", one even telling me it was red. The knew which moments happened in the morning, and which came at night. Some where able to answer questions of what they smelled -- dirt, fried food from street vendors, car exhaust, manure, etc -- just from hearing a recording.
It was a very successful week with both classes, and I can't wait to get to week 3 to see how much more we can all learn together!