Once again a good class today.  Instead of a normal check-in my faculty ember asked the students to share what they were upset or stressed about using gibberish or stream of sound.  Then she had them use english to speak the same feelings.  It worked nicely as a check in because we have down stream of sound work before.  The exercise functioned both as a technique exercise and as an emotional check in.  My faculty member then asked the students to do a  character free write in their journals asking them to write about what their character loves, hates, and needs.  This was some nice downtime for the students to do some reflecting work on their scenes.  I noticed some stopped writing early on, but remained focused either by rereading or looking over their scenes.

Rather then doing our normal physical warm up we ran the “Tap” exercise.  The students were asked to come up in pairs one at a time, then they had to recite their lines while trying to tap the other persons back.  It requires both mental and physical focus.  This was a great exercise because the students who were having a hard time doing other physical work were having fun and managed to look a little bit more relaxed.  Games are always a plus when it comes to acting exercises.

We then worked on final scenes.  I noticed that the students are more inclined to give feed back now rather then before.  I think this is because the scenes are more flushed out.  The feed back that is given is rather good and my faculty member tends to build on what each of the students have said.