Acting - Gavin

Thursday 2nd February 2012

Today we learnt what the definition of element is. We also learnt what the elements are. Earth, Water, Fire and Air. We had to give the characters in 1001 Arabian Nights these elements. (Which element suits a character best).

We also had to let ourselves go by moving around the space using different parts of our bodies. We played with happiness, sadness, anger, love and fear. We found that it helped us clear our emotions. I personally felt my emotions had been building up inside and it was nice to let them out and feel relaxed. At the beginning I did feel a bit silly, but when everyone started getting into it, it didn't matter if people were watching. I found that my movements did relate to the word Gavin was shouting out.

Later that day we also acted out the first part of 1001 Arabian nights in groups of 4. We had to use our body language and voices to express what element we think these characters are. I found this quite easy, and great to learn new skills on how to become a certain character and their personality.

At the end of the lesson we done call and recall, we each had a stick and Gavin hit his stick on the floor to make a sound, we then had to play this sound back at him by hitting our sticks on the floor. We then got into groups and altogether we played a harmony using the sticks.