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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Learning Objectives : To learn the importance of non-verbal communication in drama. To experiment with movement and gesture to convey meaning. Actions Speak Louder Than Words. Enemy and Friend. Walk around the space. One person in the room is your best friend.

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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  1. Learning Objectives: To learn the importance of non-verbal communication in drama. To experiment with movement and gesture to convey meaning. Actions Speak Louder Than Words

  2. Enemy and Friend • Walk around the space. • One person in the room is your best friend. • Without letting them know that you have picked them stay as close to them as possible. • One person in the room is your worst enemy. • Make sure you stay as far away from them as possible. • Your best friend now becomes your protector. • Make sure your protector is always between you and your enemy.

  3. Tableaux • In groups of 4/5; • Create the following tableaux concentrating on facial expressions, gesture, and stance. • Use the space well. • Use your bodies to create objects within the tableaux. • Childhood • Fear • Ambition • Rejection

  4. Tableaux cont. • Now practise these 4 tableaux until you can move seamlessly from one to the next.

  5. Actions not Words • Look at the situation on the sheet. • On your own run it through conveying the change from anxious control to all out panic.

  6. Reflection • Which ones were most effective? • Why? • Was their focus good? • Suggest some changes to gestures that would improve the piece.

  7. Everyday gestures • Focus is all important. Look at this example of how a simple gesture can convey meaning: • Moment: The man gets ready for the interview. • Gesture: With the tips of their fingers they brush hairs from their jacket whilst looking in the mirror. • Meaning: Conveys concern with appearance.

  8. Everyday Gestures cont. • This can be developed further: • Gesture: The person moves away from the mirror, looks down at their jacket, stops before they have gone three paces, returns and brushes the same spot again. • Meaning: Conveys an over-anxious nature that can be played on later in the scene.

  9. Thinking About Movements • The range of simple everyday movements that we take for granted become all-important on the stage. Each of the following are gestures or movements we do every day: • Sitting down on a chair • Standing up again • Getting out of bed • Using a knife and a fork • Drinking from a cup or a glass • Opening a door • Closing a door • Walking from one spot to another

  10. Meanings in Movement • Apply some or all of the movements listed to the roles or characters below: • A prisoner on their first day in prison • A top personality being followed for the day for a fly on the wall documentary • Someone arriving in a hotel after travelling a long way

  11. Written Task • ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’. To what extent do you think this statement is true? Give justified examples of what you have done today in class.

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