Looking back, effective imagination seems to be much more present when I was younger. To a certain extent, is our understanding of the world as it is conflicting with our ability to "effectively" imagine new situations?
domingo, 17 de abril de 2011
This week has been full of work in terms of the school play and the production meetings, I found that the hardest part was to integrate my research about costumes to the scenery for example, because I have to adapt what I have to the colour scheme of the cyclorama for example, or in terms of props, seeing if the colours of the costumes will blend well with the ones of the props. So all these little details like lengths, colour or sizes depend on the other fields of production. When working on the physical training i found that my imagination, effective imagination, needed some work, because even if I can focus and imagine other situations with my eyes closed, when i opened them i just couldnt focus enough to overwrite the space that my eyes showed me was in front of me. When thinking about it, I realized that only one of my sense was "impairing" my imagination, so I will try and focus more on the other senses and see if it helps the process. When starting our warm-up we made an exercise where we imagined our body being disconnected bit by bit, and once a body part was disconnected then no energy would flow through it, thus remaining immobile, and then we would reconnect them, again without moving, and when finishing this exercise I realized something I hadn't seen before, because in both parts of our exercise we were immobile yet we imagined, and eventually felt all these connections being connected and disconnected, proving that effective imagination happens and we can interpret it as something physical too. When we walked imagining a fictitious imagination, our way of walking eventually changed, like having gravity on another direction or walking as if we were falling, and when creating a character, imagining new situations like that can help create a certain type of walking, even for the school play, the characters which keep they're centre of gravity closer to the ground could make use of the exercise to create they're way of walking.
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A very good entry. Keep it up. Next time I'd like to see how you can relate the process of characterization of Akira Toriyama with the things you're learning in terms of physicality, the Kabuki tradition and set design.
ResponderEliminarRoberto
PS. "THEIR way of walking" (not "THEY'RE way of walking").