safety in numbers

It occured to me today in class that I am way more comfortable in group activities than I am when I have to do an exercise alone. Things like the bus stop scene and the activity where the whole class has to become a specific object feel much more comfortable because there are other people doing it with me. But when we have to do something alone, like the entannglement exercise, it is much harder I think this is more than simple saftey in numbers. It is easier in groups because I can play off other people and what they are doing and it is not up to me and me alone to come up with something interesting.

Details, Details, Details

I thought that the career activity we did today was so fun! I thought that it was really fun to be obvious when acting out a specific profession. I thought it was much easier to be obvious than to be subtle like we had to in the other activity. I began to think about how with acting sometimes being subtle is more difficult than being obvious. The details are really what matters and make scenes believable! The other activity where we had to act like we were entangled in something was clearly more difficult for me! :)

tue.

I thought that the occupation activity was hard for the guesser more then the actor. Some people may have thought it to be hard because they were trying to show themselves to much instead of just being themselves. When it was my turn to go up and the bus came I was the first one to walk straight through the windshield. It did not even hit me that i was doing that. I just took it as walking off stage. I am looking forward to seeing the crucible so that i can really watch for the techniques we learned becuase when i went to see other plays i never looked for these sorts of things.

occupations

I think the activity we did during class on tuesday was so hard! you have to kind-of act like your in a certain profession without actually doing anything to show it and still be able to be believable! ah! I think its a good activity however, because its good to learn not to be show-y show-y about what your trying to portray.

occupation

I think it's easier to act an age than it is an occupation. There are bigger differences in the way people act age, but not so much in occupation. For example, a five-year-old acts different at a bus stop than a 77-year-old. But a businessman doesn't act much different than astronaunt. It's going to be hard to act out an occupation than an age without showing the audience what you are. Also, whiz-bang is tough with two things going on at the same time.

Occupashun

Unlike some of the posts, I really don't prefer one or the other with regards to age expression or jobs, I think both can be interesting. I agree that jobs are harder because there are so many of them, some are boring, some are subtle, and some are easy to stereotype. With ages, everyone knows how little kids and elderly people act, and there can't be much more than a dozen different 'typical' portrayals in between. So I guess maybe that that is harder, trying to be noticeably different at 25 than at 28 or something.

Bus Stop

I think I like doing occupations more than ages. Mostly because it is even more challenging. It can be difficult to express your profession through your body language. The people that went on Tuesday did a good job though because with most of them, I had an idea of what sort of occupation they could have. It is true that people in certain occupations often carry themselves a specific way and have a specific attitude. I will be interested to try this activity.

figure it out?

During the exercise on Tuesday I was challenged to be an astronaut at a bus stop. This was weird in the sense I never seen or noticed an astronaut at a bus stop, let alone I needed to act like one, I hope I represented the astronaut profession alright by figuring out an equation while waiting. During the second activity of trying to figure out what was out place or missing on our partner, my bubble got busted real badly. I thought I was observant or could figure out what was missing in a short amount of time, however, I see and noticed I need a lot work and practice with this area, almost every time I missed one item on my partner that was so obvious, either I try too hard or I am overconfident, or just no good. I like the challenges that are brought our way in class, keeps us on our toes. Peace!!!

Ocupation, observation

I think that the occupation exercise is going to be kind of tough. I was really hard to figure out what the occupation was because it was so broad. I think that if someone could make it obvious for the audience what they are then they definitely acted the part. The observation exercise really made you take a close look at how good your memory was. I know I had a bit of a hard time after about the second round. I think that you definitely had to pay close attention to the detail of your partners out fit.

machines / observation

i think the machines when you have to figure out what the other people are doin is so difficult most of the times. i only get it if it is pretty ocbvious. i liked the observastion game we played because it made you disect everything out your partners outfit, even down ther the littlest things. so that was fun it was almost like hind and seek to a small degree.

The fine Line in the Occupation Exercise

I agree that it is hard to draw that line during the occupation exercise between what someone who did a certain job would really act like and trying to show what occupation we had. I was very surprised that people knew my occupation was some sort of athlete (even if it was an abstract type of athlete). But the fact that people knew what I was made me wonder if I had gone to far and tried to show that I was a bull fighter rather than really being a bull fighter. I suppose I wil just have to listen more to what Fabio says and watch other people in class and really pay attention to how far I go during these exercises.