Information on your Vocal and Physical projects for unit 6

UNIT 6 – FHFDR1

Vocal assessment

A chance for you to demonstrate how you have developed your vocal skills, and to add to your audition portfolio up before the second year!

Tasks:

1)    learn/refresh your learning of Shakespeare’s  sonnet 29 for next week & beyond – this will form one of your assessed pieces.

2)    Select a piece of published monologue material ( this should be a monologue which has been written for live performance, not a film scene or lyrics from a song.) This will form the other of your assessed pieces.

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Guidance:

Think about pushing yourself in terms of your vocal skills, but be realistic about your own playing range, and also about whether using an accent is going to give you too much to deal with at this stage.

Your monologue should between 1 & ½  and 2 minutes in length.

You should not expect to use props other than a chair if necessary .

You should consider your attire, and how you present yourself  ( hair, tatooes, piercings, headwear, earrings etc).

Physical assessment

A chance for you to demonstrate how you have developed your physical skills.  No words are allowed, but you can use sound ( laughing, coughs, breath, etc).

You can also demonstrate your understanding of your own areas of strength and comparative weakness(es) in the selection of material. For example, if you feel that core stamina needs improvement, you might choose to work on a piece which requires you to focus on this area of practice.

Tasks:

Select a stimulus to help you start developing your piece.

Identify one or more approaches to the physical development of your stimulus.

Determine whether your piece is best suited to working solo, in a pair or as a trio.

Negotiate with others to join your group if you are not working solo.

Develop and rehearse your piece.

Guidance:

Consider a range of stimuli – a news story, a play, and idea or concept ( equal pay, globalism, the use of unmanned drones in warfare, the discoveries about the beginnings of the universe in the field of  particle physics), a piece of art, an era, a piece of music etc.

Frame the development of your idea within the approach of a theatre practitioner. ( for example, Brecht’s Gestus, Grotowski’s physical score, Laban’s Efforts )

If you are working with others, whose Idea will you all choose to work on? Is there any mileage in combining elements of more than one idea?

Will you use sound? Remember, no words, but sound effects can be used – are these live? Are these pre –recorded?