January 19, 2012

Lecturer: Gavin Maxwell
Lesson Two

In this lesson, we carried on looking at story telling. We were given a story called The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage, which was about a bird, mouse and sausage who became friends and lived together, but couldn't be satisfied with what they had and ended up dying because of it.

After we had read and analysed the story, we were put into groups to recreate it.

I actually found this really hard, because we all had such different ideas of ways to do it in our heads and I found it hard to go along with the idea that was chosen by the group of someone just standing there reading the script and the others acting like the characters from the story, because I didn't agree with it at all.

I wanted to show our own interpretations of the characters as people, and all read the script, which was quite similar to what another group did.

In the end, we didn't get to show it because one of our group members had to leave the room due to illness.

I think my strength in this lesson was having lots of good ideas and knowing when I was doing something wrong which didn't really show what we could do as actors, and my weakness was not trying hard enough for my ideas to be taken into account and tried, even if they didn't work.