29th September performing arts 

In the discovery exercise we had to forget everything we knew and start fresh. This means I had to learn how to walk, talk and move. I started with my back on the floor and was looking around with just my eyes. I then moved my head to the left and could see more. This movement was incredibly strange because I had never moved before. I then started to move my limbs and learnt how to move my weight in such a way that I could roll across the floor. I then started to interact with other objects and discovering noises for the first. Then I had to int5eract with other people in the room which at first was very daunting since I did know what the other people would do. Once I started to interact more with these other characters I became more confident in my speech and movement. This activity was very interesting because it was very challenging at first because it was socially awkward. But after about 5 mins in to the activity it becomes very real. the Proxemics between people at first were very distant because we were nervous of what other would do. But as it went on were all became closer showing that we weren't as nervous. At the beginning the speed, pace and rhythm of body movements and language were very slow but as time went on them three factors started to increase in  speed.  

We were then given another activity that we were a mental patient in a mental institution. We were given a "magic if" because there was no objective so we had to react to the actions around us. I was a scitsernic patient with three voices in my head. I used speed, pace and rhythm of body language and language to represent different voices in my head. The three voices were anger, sorrow and truth. Half way through I decided upon an objective for each voice in my head. This was so I could get further in to character and understand what the voices in side my head wanted. Objective for anger was to  stay in solitude, for sorrow it was to find where I drew a picture of a garden and for truth it was to tell myself that I murdered and buried my own mum.