Workshop 3 (Monday 10th June)

We first started off by doing a few speaking activities.


CREATING A STORY
-You must go around the circle and each person has to add a word. For example, I would start with 'The' and the next person may say 'Pig' and we go around the circle until we have created a short story. (The Pig Wanted To Jump But He Couldn't)
-This allowed people to be creative with words and also see what words work nicely with each other. It also can be quite funny so it will be a nice way to get everyone feeling comfortable.

FREEZE

-Two people go in the middle of the circle (more can be added as the game goes on by saying Freeze)
-The people in the circle have to have a conversation/argument/agreement.
-Whenever you feel like it someone on the outside can say freeze and they can swap with whoever they like in the centre and change the scene and location.

FREE WRITING
- Free Writing allows everyone to write there own pieces which can then be adapted into anything they want.

You need to write down 

-an Emotion
-a Place
-a Favourite Colour
-a Name 

-When they have all these things, they will then have 2 minutes to write about anything they want BUT they have to include all of the 5 words they came up with in the first section. This is so they feel they have some place to start and are not just writing from nothing. They will only have 1 minute to do this.
-if at any point in the free writing task the clients have to stop and think, they must write 'I am writing, I am writing' continuously on the paper. The aim is that your pen never leaves the paper and its a constant flow of words.
-The writing doesn't have to make sense and it can be as crazy as you want because in the end, the writing means something to you and only you. my one was something abut the a Cat flying

Either Music or Monologue


-Leading on from this we can take 2 routes. We can decide to make our pieces of writing into spoken word or a monologue piece or make them into lyrics and add instruments.
-We can split the people who want to do each, equally with the Brit Students and devise together.


MUSICALLY


-We will have a few instruments dotted around the room which people can choose or not choose to use in there piece.
-Rosie will lead a short vocal warm up.
-Harry and I would demonstrate that for those who may not want to use instruments or be accompanied by them, we can use our voice as an instrument too. (Beat boxing)
-We then split into groups and with the material we have all separately created, choose to merge that together with the parts we like from each, or work individually to create music on our own.


MONOLOGUES

-For the people who don't want to work musically, they can choose to adapt there pieces into a monologue.
-They can really take time to experiment with this and maybe get into groups and make a short play, merging all of the free writing stories together.