The aim of useing masks was to create a blank canvas and to learn how to mime only through your actions. First we walked across the room as we would naturalyy with the masks on and and the class analysed our works. I looked at Rachels walk and she had quite a bouncey walk which could show that she has a happy, positive personality. Next Andy spoke a story and the whole group improvised and acted it out through our bodies as we had the mask's on. The idea of the blank canvas is to strip a person of their personality so that they can build a character on top of it.
To show us how we can tell stories in mime Andy gave us a short mime and we guessed what was happening and what he did to show it. Andy vey clearly showed that he was on some kind of busy street it was raining and he put his umbrella up. The also kept going into buildings and used his face to show that he was looking for something. The show the rain he held out his hand and reacted to the weather and he reacted with people going past him so that we knew their were a lot of people.
We were then asked to produced our own mimes based on the idea of a bartender. The mime would be a sequence of still persitions as te teacher counted 1,2,3 ... I personally liked Alys's mime the most because of how in one part she was doing some tricks and she waited like three still's before this thing came back down.
We were then asked to produced our own mimes based on the idea of a bartender. The mime would be a sequence of still persitions as te teacher counted 1,2,3 ... I personally liked Alys's mime the most because of how in one part she was doing some tricks and she waited like three still's before this thing came back down.
Why did you have to divide your mime into sections? What do you need to do in order to create a successful mime?
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