Drama task 3- as a director-with improvements


To prepare an actor for the scene where the girl reads the letter I would use hot seating. This will help make the character in role fix there posture to suite the characters personality and to help them remember the characters back story and  characteristics. This method would also help them keep in role during performance and scene. Questions I would ask during hot seating are
- How do you feel about dark wood manor?
- Do you like the people you are with?
You could do this at least ten minutes before the scene, so they are fully in role.

Another way I would prepare an actor for there performance is practising the scene for example rehearsing lines. Sometimes using thought tracking, and stopping half way through to ask the actor how they feel and what they are doing. This would  help them fully understand how to react to everything with in the scene, whether to be happy, sad , excited, scared or shocked. this would help the audience during the performance to understand what's happening because they could just look at the actors reaction and understand what it means.

An actor needs to speak there lines clearly and loud enough for the audience to hear whilst also making sure it sounds realistic. For example if you had a scene where the actor needed to seem sad, off stage you would act with a quiet voice, whilst this would be the best way to get across your feelings this would not work on stage because the audience would not be able to hear you. so I would advise the actor to speak loudly but slowly and make noises such as sniffing etc. It will also mean you will be able to hear the voice over the sound effects and sound scape.

 Something that is really important during a play is timings. If this were to go wrong then the whole play could fall apart. It is of great importance that someone comes on to the stage when its their time to come on and that they say their lines when they need to be said. When the performance is timed correctly then it creates tension amongst the audience which leads to a better performance. This could be practiced off stage.

Actioning text is another great way to develop a performance. Actioning text is where the actors will practice and do key research and perform there scene. This will help with remembrance, creativity and developing the performance. We could use this because we are creating our own parts of the story to carry on the performance this would help us be able to create a different scene where most characters are involved. Yet the scene will still have to create tension and a story line.

I think that during the letter scene when the girl reads the letter timing is important to practice because there are two people one acting and one that has a monologue. They both have to be in time or the scene will not create tension. I think because the genre we are performing is horror it is very important to know what character you are, there are lots of different characters some scared, some upset, and some excited. the best way to get into role and really understand your character is hot seating. Hot seating will help you remember what type of character you are, your backstory and your personality.                                                                                                                                                   

overall I think the best technique to use when preparing for a performance is hot seating, because this will help the actor though out the performance.