Communications: Speech, Media, and Creative Performance, Part 3

Question 1: There are many different exercises and techniques that you can use. List some that can be done while standing.

Answer 1: While Standing Bobbing: Stand with your feet apart. Hang your trunk and arms down from your waist. Gently bob down, stretching your fingers to touch the floor if possible. Slowly stand erect. Swaying: Repeat, but this time sway gently from side to side, rhythmically. Slowly raise to erect position. Circling: Begin as swaying, but build sway up to a vigorous swing that takes you in a full circle. On the rebound, continue with two or three strong swings, then a full circle in the opposite direction. Arms: Stretch out each arm to the front in turn, fists clenched. Drop each heavily to your side. Rest Feet: Clench your feet, arching them as much as possible. Release them. Rest. Knees: Lock your knees back. Release them. Rest. Shoulders: Round your shoulders, keeping your arms loose. Release them. Rest. Neck: Hang your head. Gently swing it to the right and the left. Let it flop backwards. Swing gently to the right and left again. Let it fall to your chest.

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Question 2: There are two main techniques for remember quotations and lines, identify them.

Answer 2: 1. Repetition Professional actors are said to learn lines most effectively by rereading a play or parts in a play many times over a short period. As an example, they may read something to be remembered 5 to 10 times a day over 4 days. 2. Keyword/Journey System An alternative approach using mnemonics is to use the journey system, with a stop for each line. At each stop you can either code the key images or words, or can adopt a technique where you associate each word in the line. The journey method is a powerful, flexible and effective mnemonic based around the idea of remembering landmarks on a well-known journey. In many ways it combines the narrative flow of the Link Method and the structure and order of the Peg Systems into one highly effective mnemonic. Bcause the journey method uses routes that you know well, you can code information to be remembered to a large number of easily visualized or remembered landmarks along the routes. Because you know what these landmarks look like, you need not work out visualizations for them! The journey method is based on using landmarks on a journey that you know well.

Question 3: Actors must also warm-up and exercise their vocal apparatus. List some of these exercises.

Answer 3: Breath in by pulling in the diaphram. Inhale through nose and mouth at the same time Breath control: Breath in deeply. Inhale through nose and mouth. Round the lips. Release air gradually through the lips in a silent whistle. Sit in straight chair, upright but relaxed. Pant rapidly with the mouth open, but don’t inhale. huh-huh-huh-. pant seven times, pause briefly, inhale deeply. Pant as above but with three slow huh's followed by a short pause Pant with strong huh's inhaling between each, as a dog. Take a deep breath, slowly let out through rounded lips until it feels like you have emptied the lungs. Inhale deeply. Inhale. hum the air out. Go up the scale, one note with each breath. Empty lungs each time. Inhale, count on each exhale One (refill), One, two (refill), One, two, three (refill) etc. to ten.

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