During this session, we explored the feelings of fear and that of wanting to be close to be somebody, and from this, ways in which we could present this through realism, followed by using movement.
To begin with, we began to try and understand the feelings we would portray through doing an exercise in which we had to concentrate on someone we cared for who didn't know, and try and stay close. Then we concentrated on both this person and someone who we were afraid of. This allowed us to try and combine the two at once and work with avoiding one person while caring for another.
As groups, we then had to present ourselves together in a room with each character presenting a different feeling: wanting to be close to somebody, being uncomfortable with the former, and then simply being afraid and withdrawn. As our group had four rather then three like the others, I attempted to present a character caught up between it: interested in being close to the one who was afraid, friendly with one who was uncomfortable and annoyed with the one being close to another. We presented our scene in a staff room at lunch time as we felt this would be the ideal setting for odd relationships and tension.
After performing these, the class then sat in a circle and we used physical movement to describe what the person on the left looked like. Using these movements, we went back to the scenes we had just come up with and tried to incorporate it into all our movement. For half the characters in the scene, this worked effectively as they were directly interacting and were able to work off each other. However, I didn't do very well at this activity and though I tried to portray some movement and feeling in these actions, I didn't effectively interact like I did with the realism. If I had had more time, I think I would have been able to come up with something to interact with another character to effectively show the tension in the room.
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