Creating physical objects and giving them attitudes.

Giving objects that we physically created attitudes helped me develop a better understanding on presenting different ideas and emotions to the audience and how they may interpret the ideas presented. A 'sad chair' could suggest multiple different things to the audience, for example; someone in the scene may be particularity sad, the chair could physically be made up of sad people or events in or surrounding the scene could be upsetting - it leaves the audience to develop their own thoughts and ideas about the scene or freeze frame presented. A 'happy motorbike' could also suggest different interpretations from the audience, for example; the person riding the motorbike could be particularly joyful, the scene it's involved in may be positive and happy or the motorbike could be personified and be happy itself.

By doing this exercise I was able to develop skills that help me portray feelings through my physicality - especially through the physicality of a physical object. It also helped me develop a better understanding of how the audience perceives different ideas presented to them and what they may take from them. It was interesting to see how many different conclusions could be drawn from just one freeze frame of a physical object inhabiting an emotion as it showed how different people may interpret and perceive things in various ways - and how as an actor, I should use that idea whilst developing different scenes and during rehearsals.