Movement

 Now we have two sides of our masks. We went back to the emotions sheet and chose the opposite of the original one we picked. It was hard to decide on the opposite of thoughtful. I eventually decided on apathetic. My thought was that my character has a lot of ideas and likes to consider things deeply. But sometimes, he just doesn't put in as much thought or consideration. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to differentiate the two sides more in terms of movement.                                                               thoughtful                                                  apathetic

We've started doing clown work. We each have a paper bag mask which we turned inside out (fun exercise for de-stressing). We were given a sheet with a grid of emotions, and we had to pick one of the faces to draw on our mask. I chose thoughtful. Then we gave our masks names and given circumstances. It's interesting to look at how to move your body to tell a story. We don't have any facial changes because our mask just gives us one expression.

 Yesterday I did my first movement project in class. We were given the word evolution, meaning "a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state." It took awhile to figure out what to do for this. I started by looking for music. I found a lot of great songs for movement, but I couldn't decide how they related to evolution. I saved them for later though; they could work for the next project (Freedom). I eventually found "I Can't Handle Change" by Roar. Evolution is growth, but changes are difficult. In this class, I have had to deal with everyone's skill level being far beyond my own. I haven't "grown" as much as them, so that affected me and my willingness to try to. I decided to just show how my mental and physical selves were influenced. The music saying "nothing I do is every good enough" pretty much portrayed how my brain gave itself a beatdown everytime, while I just tr...