Discovery exercise response:
I thought that this was a really interesting but also challenging activity. This is because the process of trying to forget everything that you spent your life learning in just a few minutes was rather difficult at first. Once that initial stage was over, you then have to decide what approach you were going to take to the task. Initially, I started by first taking in my surroundings visually and then beginning to discover the wonder of touch.
Throughout the task I mostly try to communicate by banging on floor or clapping my hands to get others attention towards the end of the exercise I was taught how to use my voice to make sounds too full stop I also worked in a pair to try to go from a sitting position to a standing up with the help of a stack of chairs and a fellow discoverer.
Overall, I thought it was a very interesting task and even though at times I found it extremely funny I didn't really feel that stupid doing it because we were all in the same boat.
Mental home response:
This was a less challenging activity than the first as I was playing a middle aged woman with obsessive compulsive disorder and as I have seen several films and documentaries that star people with this disorder, I am quite familiar with some of the symptoms that they might have. For example, wanting things in the right order and wanting to do certain things a certain amount of time.
However, it was still a very interesting exercise as, due to the fact that I didn't necessarily start the activity with a set objective my character and her goals developed throughout. For example, I started off just trying to draw peacefully in the dayroom but then I noticed some things that weren't tidy on my desk so I fixed them but then I noticed yet another thing out of place, then another, then another and so on.
So I stood up and walked away from the table to try and calm myself down but then I noticed the mats were all scattered untidily around the room so I had to order them into two neat straight Lines. Other patients however kept talking to me and standing on the mat as I try to move them. This stressed me out so I then had to go and count to ten whilst I setup my rapid breathing and open and closed the door ten times.
When I finally got back to my table I ended the scene by pulling out my chair ten times. In some parts in both this and the next activity, I also felt that's my real breathing was getting very shallow the more and more that I acted it and I was physically making myself get more and more stressed if I didn't get the things to be neat and perfect.
This just shows how involved with my character and the activity that I felt. I believe I was very successful and believable in this character
Department store response:
This activity was slightly more challenging than the last as not only did we have to maintain our characters disorder, but we also all had the shared objective which was to tell another customer that we thought we were being followed by a hit man without sounding mentally ill.
This was difficult as everyone that I told was also in the same position so I never managed to achieve my character's desired reaction; all I got was either the same thing back or an extremely worried response.
I think I acted successfully in this activity as towards the end I was running away, constantly checking behind me and I used the same time counting method to settle my breathing which made me sound even more panicked. I would also stop every so often to neaten something up which supported my character’s disorder.
At the very end I sat under the a table where I thought I was hidden, put my head between my legs and began to count slower as my breathing settled.
These activities taught me how to distance myself from my character and become someone with an extreme personality this was difficult initially but I believe it will help me with characterisation in the future.
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