Thursday, April 9, 2009
A Work in Progress
With my performance Tuesday, the two main thing I feel like I need to work on are 1. Taking a moment at each beat, to allow time for the joke to settle. This will give the audience time to react and hopefully laugh. 2. Opening up myself to the audience a little more, as Spencer suggested. I feel as though I was keeping my gigs to myself a little too much. I think a simple solution to this would be not hunching over. I need to keep my shoulders back, and have a little more movement from my hips. I think if I were to focus on these two small aspects, my performance, It will be significantly funnier.
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Go back to the video. Look at how Atkinson allows us to be a part of the scene by looking at the camera. All you need to do is substitute the audience for the camera. Also, why do you need to look at us and share with us your triumphs and tragedies? Again, go back to the video and see if you can figure out why the audience is allowed into the scene.
ReplyDeleteYou weren't at the fight workshop, but Rob gave some good advice on combat that I think applies to physical comedy. He said a good fight, like a good news story repeats itself. Set up your joke, do the joke, hold a beat so that you let the audience know that was the joke. When you rush through without taking moments to allow us to see whats to come or what has just happened, we won't laugh. Those short pauses give the audience permission to laugh.