Lecturer: Gavin Maxwell
Lesson One
Today, we began with an energetic warm-up, which I found tiring, but enjoyable. Then we watched a power point about the Stanislavski system. At first, I found this quite hard to understand, as I learn in a more practical way, but when it was explained to me again, I started to get the hang of it. When we had had a discussion about this and it was clear that we all understood it, we watched a clip of This Is England. This was to show us an example of truthful acting. It was truthful because the actor completely believed in what he was doing and this rubbed off on the audience. He was working off relaxation, an element of the Stanislavski system.
There were parts of the clip where I switched off because of the calm atmosphere the actors created (and also because I couldn't quite hear it) but overall, I enjoyed watching it.
However the discussion we had about the clip aftwards was a lot more beneficial to me, because we could talk about everything that wasn't quite clear.
My strength in this lesson was my ability to understand things relatively quickly, and my weakness was my concentration, because at times it wasn't as good as it should have been.
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