My first initial thoughts for my autobiography piece were to maybe concentrate on feelings and emotions I had from a child. My confidence level was always low when I was younger and I found this very difficult to deal with sometimes, therefore thought it would be a strong piece to build on, however I did not want my whole piece to centre on sadness, which is why I had to think of adding some comedy to it.
I also wanted to add some of my Italian culture and background to my piece, and somehow try to incorporate that to my first idea. As I speak fluent Italian, I thought it would be a good idea to maybe speak Italian in some parts, this would be difficult for the audience to understand, but then it would be up to me to help them understand through different art forms.
The autobiographical piece seems like an interesting one to do. It'll be good to present certain events in my life in a theatrical manner - to get moods and emotions across to the audience.
In theory, so far, thinking of ideas is easy, but actually thinking of ways to present them is not. Many memorable events took place in my childhood days, so I may put a focus to that - but in regards to how to present them theatrically may be tricky.
Whether there'll be happy moments, sad moments or funny moments, remains to be seen, but I'm sure I'll manage something if I think outside the box. I look forward to see what I come up with!
I have found this piece quite difficult to work with so far. I have found it hard to think of parts of my life that I want to act out. Also how I will go about presenting it.
I have chosen to draw upon a series of memories from childhood like my first day in school to more recent things... Like moving to uni!
Finding a way of showing this progression is going to be difficult, however as I piece together a script it will become easier and feel more natural.
The autobiographical piece, for me has been a very interesting and difficult devising piece for me to create. As a piece of drama I wanted to create a piece that would help my classmates understand me as a person a little better and my experiences in life which have helped shape me to be the person I am today.
In order to do this I wanted to concentrate at a difficult point in my life which some may see as opportunistic where as others may interpret the piece as the piece as quite sad.
When i first received the autobiography task I had no idea what i was going to do, as i didn't want to go in to anything too deep. But after a few days I had a lot of ideas and I started to feel more comfortable about performing something purely based on me.
I do think I took the easy way out because i could of done something a lot deeper but instead i chose to kind of stay on the surface, that's mainly because it takes me a long time to share things about myself with others.
I quite like the idea of performing autobiographies because everyone gets to see a small piece of each other.
I've been finding it so difficult to do this task but finally got my head round it. I've decided exactly what I want to do just having problems with how i want to perform it.
I'm showing different stages of my life with 4 different chairs and moving onto each chair discussing each stage.
When I first learned what we had to do for our autobiographical piece, I was a little unsure of how to begin, or even WHERE to begin!
I thought about which memory I would share with the group for a while, and I settled on a memory I have of when I was a young boy out for a walk with my grandad.
I've decided to base my piece around an autobiography in the literal sense of the word, physically passing the 'manuscript' to pre-selected members of the audience who will be acting as publishers.
I hope that this goes well for all of us, and I hope that we al learn a little more about each other and become closer because of it!
Like most people I found that starting it was difficult and had no idea on what aspect of my life to concentrate on.
My initial ideas consisted of a confliction between deep personal issues or a more light hearted one. After much consideration I chose an event that I wish to inspire people with; the part of my life where I fell in with the crowd.
I really hope my performance goes well and inspires you all!
The initial idea for the autobiography was instant for me. But how to portray this in a performance was the real challenge. Even up to the weekend before, I was looking to change aspects of the piece. From rehearsal I realised that certain creative idea's looked great on paper, but just didn't work.
My initial thought's were to be on a chair showing my sons Austin’s restrictions from having meningitis by being tied to a chair with my eyes and ears covered to show his helplessness, but something about this seemed more chemical more designed.
I wanted something more natural, I felt like I wanted the audience to be part of it, to re - live it with me. I tried to look outside the box, to make the piece more realistic and pure to the actual event. I struggled with the technique side of my performance again good ideas but harder to get these things in place on a tight restricted time schedule.
I was really scared first performance and all that. I would just like to end by saying I really enjoyed all the performance’s yesterday, what a talented bunch!!!
This project was really interesting and i was eager to start it.
At the beginning i gave a lot of thought to individual memories to use but i realised that i had to use the traveller side of my life. It was easy to pick the most life changing memories. I had to bring all the stories together without making it sound like a list. i decided to take the audience on a short tour of my life and the countries i lived in.
i explained the memories as i was a story teller and integrate little mimes to keep the audience exited and ready for more.
After the performance i had the chance to reflect on the mistakes and the good things i did and decided to spend extra time on organization.
My first initial thoughts for my autobiography piece were to maybe concentrate on feelings and emotions I had from a child. My confidence level was always low when I was younger and I found this very difficult to deal with sometimes, therefore thought it would be a strong piece to build on, however I did not want my whole piece to centre on sadness, which is why I had to think of adding some comedy to it.
ReplyDeleteI also wanted to add some of my Italian culture and background to my piece, and somehow try to incorporate that to my first idea. As I speak fluent Italian, I thought it would be a good idea to maybe speak Italian in some parts, this would be difficult for the audience to understand, but then it would be up to me to help them understand through different art forms.
The autobiographical piece seems like an interesting one to do. It'll be good to present certain events in my life in a theatrical manner - to get moods and emotions across to the audience.
ReplyDeleteIn theory, so far, thinking of ideas is easy, but actually thinking of ways to present them is not. Many memorable events took place in my childhood days, so I may put a focus to that - but in regards to how to present them theatrically may be tricky.
Whether there'll be happy moments, sad moments or funny moments, remains to be seen, but I'm sure I'll manage something if I think outside the box. I look forward to see what I come up with!
I have found this piece quite difficult to work with so far. I have found it hard to think of parts of my life that I want to act out. Also how I will go about presenting it.
ReplyDeleteI have chosen to draw upon a series of memories from childhood like my first day in school to more recent things... Like moving to uni!
Finding a way of showing this progression is going to be difficult, however as I piece together a script it will become easier and feel more natural.
The autobiographical piece, for me has been a very interesting and difficult devising piece for me to create. As a piece of drama I wanted to create a piece that would help my classmates understand me as a person a little better and my experiences in life which have helped shape me to be the person I am today.
ReplyDeleteIn order to do this I wanted to concentrate at a difficult point in my life which some may see as opportunistic where as others may interpret the piece as the piece as quite sad.
These are my initial thoughts for the project.
When i first received the autobiography task I had no idea what i was going to do, as i didn't want to go in to anything too deep. But after a few days I had a lot of ideas and I started to feel more comfortable about performing something purely based on me.
ReplyDeleteI do think I took the easy way out because i could of done something a lot deeper but instead i chose to kind of stay on the surface, that's mainly because it takes me a long time to share things about myself with others.
I quite like the idea of performing autobiographies because everyone gets to see a small piece of each other.
I've been finding it so difficult to do this task but finally got my head round it. I've decided exactly what I want to do just having problems with how i want to perform it.
ReplyDeleteI'm showing different stages of my life with 4 different chairs and moving onto each chair discussing each stage.
When I first learned what we had to do for our autobiographical piece, I was a little unsure of how to begin, or even WHERE to begin!
ReplyDeleteI thought about which memory I would share with the group for a while, and I settled on a memory I have of when I was a young boy out for a walk with my grandad.
I've decided to base my piece around an autobiography in the literal sense of the word, physically passing the 'manuscript' to pre-selected members of the audience who will be acting as publishers.
I hope that this goes well for all of us, and I hope that we al learn a little more about each other and become closer because of it!
Like most people I found that starting it was difficult and had no idea on what aspect of my life to concentrate on.
ReplyDeleteMy initial ideas consisted of a confliction between deep personal issues or a more light hearted one. After much consideration I chose an event that I wish to inspire people with; the part of my life where I fell in with the crowd.
I really hope my performance goes well and inspires you all!
I have found this project difficult in particular a way to convey my emotions.
ReplyDeleteI hope we all benefit from each others performances and feel more comfortable working together in future performances.
The initial idea for the autobiography was instant for me. But how to portray this in a performance was the real challenge. Even up to the weekend before, I was looking to change aspects of the piece. From rehearsal I realised that certain creative idea's looked great on paper, but just didn't work.
ReplyDeleteMy initial thought's were to be on a chair showing my sons Austin’s restrictions from having meningitis by being tied to a chair with my eyes and ears covered to show his helplessness, but something about this seemed more chemical more designed.
I wanted something more natural, I felt like I wanted the audience to be part of it, to re - live it with me. I tried to look outside the box, to make the piece more realistic and pure to the actual event. I struggled with the technique side of my performance again good ideas but harder to get these things in place on a tight restricted time schedule.
I was really scared first performance and all that. I would just like to end by saying I really enjoyed all the performance’s yesterday, what a talented bunch!!!
This project was really interesting and i was eager to start it.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning i gave a lot of thought to individual memories to use but i realised that i had to use the traveller side of my life. It was easy to pick the most life changing memories. I had to bring all the stories together without making it sound like a list. i decided to take the audience on a short tour of my life and the countries i lived in.
i explained the memories as i was a story teller and integrate little mimes to keep the audience exited and ready for more.
After the performance i had the chance to reflect on the mistakes and the good things i did and decided to spend extra time on organization.