1. Works
You are a movie director searching for an actor to play a leading role in your new film. You are looking for someone who will play a brave, sometimes reckless explorer. Audition Michael by viewing three of his movie clips from "Hercules", "Hamlet", "Macbeth".
Would you give Michael the part? Give reasons.
2. Flick Cards
Make some flick cards by cutting up some soft cardboard into rectangles about the size of playing cards. On the bottom of each card, draw a picture, with every new picture slightly different from the one before. As you flick through the cards really quickly, the pictures will appear to move.
3. "In the Moment"
Improvisations can be developed into polished presentations. Michael Hurst describes improvisations using the phrase "in the moment".
Divide the class into groups. Each group will select one person to be the director. The director's task is to encourage ideas, enhance the meaning and assist the performers in communicating presentation.
Each group's task is to make up a scene with five lines of dialogue finishing with "You can keep it". Share each group's presentation and as an audience provide positive feedback.
4. Comic strips
Both text and illustration can be used to tell a story. Try writing a text for an existing cartoon, or drawing cartoons for an existing text. After this, you may even want to have a go at your own comic strip, where you make up both the text and the illustration.
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