In the next task we did a circle soundscape for the city. In other words, the teacher gave us a piece of paper with a few words on it saying a sound that the city would make like people calling, taxi or mind the gap or police and so on. As more people said their thing, the more volume was used and it started to sound like a city.
In the next assignment we had to do a group image of a modern city. The teacher told us what to do like the market place, protesters and religious fanatics and so on. I got into a group of four and we did street entertainment. We had a juggler, a dancer, a miner and a person in charge rounding up the people. Her volume was loud all the time to get people to watch. Her tone of voice was friendly and cheerful. Everyone one else did not speak because it looked effected. My posture was standing with my shoulders back. I moved at a medium pace with confidence. I was smiling to make other people in the city smile back and watch the entertainment. Another group were muggers. They spoke quickly and whispered when mugging. They took sudden movements. The city image looked better when people mixed they scene with other people’s scenes.
In the next task we had to do a group image again, but of a village. The teacher gave us a scene to do like milking the cow, working on the land, children playing and so on. Our group did a job called pinching apples. We tried to do a farmers accent but I couldn’t do it, so I kept quiet. Our volume stayed the same and was a cheerful tone. The actions we took were natural and fussy. I was on someone shoulder and someone else was holding a basket. I moved quickly, hurriedly and unsteadily. My facial expressions were confused. Another group did milking the cow. I thought it was funny because that group put on a different accent. They all could do it! I think the group kept to the same volume and they tone of voice was excited and friendly. The main posture was sitting on a chair bending over. When we inter linked, it was a cheerful and quiet atmosphere but when we did the city image inter linked it was noise and angry!
In the next assignment we had to do a split focus scenes. It had to show that “the city and village are in the same country, but are not equal. The city has more power.” The city people were posh and the villagers had a farmer’s accent. We had to show the differences between cities and villagers. We set two scenes. The villagers were in different levels, doing different jobs. The city people were having a tea party and complaining about the villagers. We had 4 split scenes than we used choral speaking where you all say something together and we used synchronised movement where you all do the same thing together. Life in the city and the country was the same because they were both complaining about each other, how they were lazy and did no work. Life in the city and the country was different because villagers have to have a permit to visit the city but city people can walk into the village anytime they want.
