Emotional Centres and Status Levels

Emotional Centres

1.    A bowl of warm oil deep within the pelvis

2.    An ice cold razor on the end of your nose

3.    A warm, red plate expanding from the chest

4.    A small white-hot medallion in the centre of the chest

5.    A frozen tear drop in the centre of the chest

6.    Red hot coals in the centre of the feet

7.    A pink marshmallow in place of a bottom

8.    A grey misty haze in front of your head

9.    A grey misty haze behind your head

10.           A grey misty haze above your head

Status Levels we experimented with include:

1.    Extremely nervous, quiet and inhibited

2.    Very nervous, quiet and inhibited

3.    Nervous, quiet and inhibited

4.    A little nervous, quiet and inhibited

5.    Neither timid nor bold

6.    Rather outgoing and confident

7.    Bold and confident

8.    Commanding and rather imposing

9.    Very commanding, intimidating and bold.

10.           Extremely commanding, imperious and untouchable

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What makes an actor truly great? The actor's job is to bring a scripted character to life. RADA's Dee Cannon outlines 10 questions that must be addressed in order to create a fully-realised three-dimensional person

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Year 10 Term 1 Skills Bank

Character Creation Exercises

Researching Character/Play

Historical, Cultural, Social, Political

            Finding given circumstances

Hot Seating

Improvised Scenes

Create the previous scene

Working with physical objectives

            Playing objectives

            Finding useful physical objectives

3 Line Scenes

Taking Direction

Working on a prescribed set

Acting Skills

Voice Warms Ups

Sirening

Breathing

The tip of the teeth and the lips

Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers

Physical Warm Ups

            Cat stretch

            Rolling down the spine

            Pull and Pressing Exercise

            Shoulder Rolls

Energy

Status

Emotional State

Physicality

Evaluation

Skills Audit 1

Skills Audit 2

Evaluate what learnt already

Evaluate how you’ve improved.

Evaluate your ability to communicate character using voice and body.

Evaluate your awareness of audience and space.

Punk Rock - Acting Skills

Voice and Movement

Session 2

Lower Body breathing in Semi Supine

Spine Rolls on s, z, sh, j, f, v, mm, opening into ah

Imaginary Chewing Gum

Raisin face/pumpkin face

Tongue Twisters (Peter piper)

Session 3

Expanding/contracting gestures

Body tennis (sending and receiving sound and movement across the circle)

Stop clap jump

Mopeds, kisses and ciao bella

Semi-Supine – Freeing and relaxing neck, spine and hips into floor.

feathers and ha’s

Movement

Funky chicken shake out for 8, 4, 2, 1

Finding Neutral

Rotating feet, legs, Hips, Torso head

Leg swings/Arm swings

Spelling your name with your head

Emotional Centres

1. A bowl of warm oil deep within the pelvis

2. An ice cold razor on the end of your nose

3. A warm, red plate expanding from the chest

4. A mixture of each of these centres

Acting Exercises

The 9 Questions

Who am I?

Where am I?

What time is it?

What surrounds me?

What are my given circumstances?

What is my relationship?

What do I want?

What’s in my way?

What do I do to get what I want?

Thought and Intention

Giving and receiving the ball

Giving and receiving the ball with the line

For each scene annotate your text with a thinking script. What is the character thinking and feeling at that moment of the line? What are they saying in their heads?

Improvising the scene without the text

Objectives Annotation.

I went in the church,/ I saw the bodies,/ I saw you/ and I took the shot./ I picked you up/ and I ran./

To inform/ To describe/ To recall/ to inform/to reassure/to admit.