We did an exercise as a group where we gave someone a situation and they had to perform it to us as believable as possible, if the task wasn't fulfilled, you were able to say "I don't believe you!". The first situation was given to Rhianne and she was to play a teenage Muslim girl who just found out she was pregnant. I thought Rhianne successfully performed the situation and chose to use very little movement and no dialogue, it effectively portrayed the feelings of dread and regret. However, personally, I would play the situation more panicked as no doubt a pregnant teenager would be panicking at the news.
Secondly, Josh was given the situation of having to act as if he was experiencing a heat wave. Josh had to go through and rethink his performance three times before the majority of the class were satisfied with it. I personally agreed with the class and felt that the third time he had really managed to capture how one would act in a heat wave.
I really liked the exercise and I hope we get to do it again soon as it really showed how much effort you have to put in and how much you have to think about to make the audience really believe what you're trying to portray. You can't perform to an audience by putting little effort in to make it believable, you've got to work hard and really think what it is that will make the situation successful.
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