Stage Composition
Today, we looked at how the position of actors (sight lines, shapes. proximity, etc.) affects the way a scene is interpreted by an audience and the message that is conveyed. I must say I have seen this aspect of stage composition before, but never in such detail. In fact, Mr. Mouck showed us how different 'setups' of people on the upstage downstage rightstage leftstage (from the actor's perspective) will convey different emotions and stories. People were sent to the stage and were told to stand in particular ways. We all found it quite easy to interpret what the setup was 'conveying'. Some examples are the fact that when one person stands facing the audience, and the rest face away form the audience in a diagonal starting at downstage to going to upstage to that person, all of the attention is brought to him/her, often in a 'powerful' way. Also, when a group of people stand far away from one person, facing them, that person looks like hes ruling the group of people. When the opposite is true, the 'outcast' faces away from also turned around group, it looks like the one person is.. well.. an outcast. Other things we went over are the fact that even though your voice may sound louder when in the middle of the amphitheater, the difference is minute to your audience, so we need to keep our voices strong and articulate! It would be wise to apply of these skills to our Jabberwocky performance, especially stage composition in order to convey a greater meaning to our audience.
To apply our new stage composition skills, Mr. Mouck had Sua, Bukama, Sarah, Omar (and some other people) and me go on stage and convey the word 'aloneness' solely through stage composition. Though I was kind of stuck for a while, I realized that aloneness was related to the whole 'outcast' stage composition I was talking about before. I therefore had some of us form two couples who would stand far away from a little group of girls, facing away form us. Since I wanted to include some jealousy in the, I had us facing the happy couples instead of turning around. We were suddenly lonely, jealous girls and were watching two happy couples walk away without saying a word! Mr. Mouck did change a few aspects of the way we were standing, such as making ur little group of girls face in all different directions to give us a sense of pure disconnection form each other (and therefore making us even more lonely and realistic looking). I now know that without stage composition, our performance will be flat and boring possibly even confusing. Since we can only use the script f the Jabberwocky as or words, we mus use everything else we can to convey meaning...
Today, we looked at how the position of actors (sight lines, shapes. proximity, etc.) affects the way a scene is interpreted by an audience and the message that is conveyed. I must say I have seen this aspect of stage composition before, but never in such detail. In fact, Mr. Mouck showed us how different 'setups' of people on the upstage downstage rightstage leftstage (from the actor's perspective) will convey different emotions and stories. People were sent to the stage and were told to stand in particular ways. We all found it quite easy to interpret what the setup was 'conveying'. Some examples are the fact that when one person stands facing the audience, and the rest face away form the audience in a diagonal starting at downstage to going to upstage to that person, all of the attention is brought to him/her, often in a 'powerful' way. Also, when a group of people stand far away from one person, facing them, that person looks like hes ruling the group of people. When the opposite is true, the 'outcast' faces away from also turned around group, it looks like the one person is.. well.. an outcast. Other things we went over are the fact that even though your voice may sound louder when in the middle of the amphitheater, the difference is minute to your audience, so we need to keep our voices strong and articulate! It would be wise to apply of these skills to our Jabberwocky performance, especially stage composition in order to convey a greater meaning to our audience.
To apply our new stage composition skills, Mr. Mouck had Sua, Bukama, Sarah, Omar (and some other people) and me go on stage and convey the word 'aloneness' solely through stage composition. Though I was kind of stuck for a while, I realized that aloneness was related to the whole 'outcast' stage composition I was talking about before. I therefore had some of us form two couples who would stand far away from a little group of girls, facing away form us. Since I wanted to include some jealousy in the, I had us facing the happy couples instead of turning around. We were suddenly lonely, jealous girls and were watching two happy couples walk away without saying a word! Mr. Mouck did change a few aspects of the way we were standing, such as making ur little group of girls face in all different directions to give us a sense of pure disconnection form each other (and therefore making us even more lonely and realistic looking). I now know that without stage composition, our performance will be flat and boring possibly even confusing. Since we can only use the script f the Jabberwocky as or words, we mus use everything else we can to convey meaning...
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