Practising

6 April 2012 ( Monday)


Everything is just as usual. Early wake up, reach campus, walk in classroom then sleep while waiting for class to starts. When Mr. Rey came in, he saw me and Sam sleeping but I woke up 1st and he asks us is this a hospital. LOL! Speechless.

Today we're gonna practising our scripts. Mr. Rey says he will more focus on text and emotion and tone. Before that starts, he calls us to warm ourselves up then say our lines. Next, face your partner then hold hands and say the lines. Then use both hands put on your partner's shoulder, make eye contact and say the lines. After that, while saying our lines we can use our both hands shake our partner's shoulder act as an emotion.

Now the real lessons starts. Mr. Rey orders us to take 2 chairs and 4 blocks. Then Mr. Rey chooses 2 groups to do 1st and the other 2 will go out from the class and practise their own script. So 1st is my group and Vhina's group. They do their script 1st. Mr. Rey wants them to face each other, make eye contact put down their scripts, both hands on top your thigh whereas me and Zong Yong help them to read their line, each of them. When we read their lines, they have to repeat it again with tones and emotions. Mr. Rey also will help by questioning them. Such as " What is this word mean to you? Is it angry?" , " What do you feel when she speaks like this to you?", " Try to use other tone for this sentence." and others. Is kinda annoying if you didn't get what Mr. Rey is teaching you and you always stuck there repeating the same line.

Now is my group's turn and is their turn to read our lines for us. I can't believe that this exercise really helped a lot! With those questions that Mr. Rey gave us, we exactly manage to identify character's tone and interruption. Time is running up so Mr. Rey have to stop us here and he calls other groups to come in whereas we all go outside the class and rehears our lines like what we did just now and we continue it. Me and Zong Yong actually like try and error for the lines. CRAP! Some sentences I really can't get it and I do it again and again, still can't get the tone. Zong Yong is just like " do it again, do it again, do it again". Come on if you just call me to repeat again and I still don't get it why don't you just tell me how is the tone like but I didn't say that to him I just stay calm and ask him to demonstrate for me.

No longer, Mr. Rey calls us to come in the classrooms and he tells us that we need to memorize 2/3 of the lines and the play for the next week's class.