We then watched 5 of clips of mime starting with a mime called "Tape Face" Which was
a contempery, silent, comedy styled mime which used music as the theme of some
of his mimes. His communication with the audience is clear and very to
the point he also had a volunteer jump up to the stage which proved
very funny. Tape Face uses youth based mime and had great timings with the
music when he had his oven mitts sing. As his name suggests Tape face has a bit
of tape over his mouth which means he requires alot of facial expression to be
used. With the use of puppeteering he gave the oven mitts a life of their own
which helped to engage the audience even more with the added help of eye
interaction with both the audience and the scene he was performing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JbiZEWq1Y
The second clip of the 5 was a sketch done by Rowan Atkinson
as he was portraying a janitor who stumbles upon an invisible drum kit a very
comedic silent piece that requires great timing with the sound effects as the
drums, the bells hit in the sound of the national an fume the sound of a cat
getting stepped on followed by 3 blind mice and finished with a flying
screeching and hissing cat who lands on a symbol or into a gong. He performed with a great sense of where
every thing is spaced. He kept his facial expressions natural and body language
was clear and kept eye contact with the objects in the mime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQNKIePGMQ
Video 3 was of a mime called Le’ncontro Con Garance who
performed a Situation type mime. This mime worked with silence and music when
he was miming it made you feel like you where the towns people watching the
piece. He describes the events through mime whilst greatly exaggerating his
movements of what happened. He causes the audience to laugh as he openly mocks
the people in the situation. His skills through the whole piece are not moving,
his facial expressions, over exaggeration, his multi rolling and his mimic or
impersonation performances. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FA_Pv0ylIY
The next piece stars Tony Montanaro uses subtle mime comedy
with a lot of sound effects and great focus on the audience. His facial
expressions and physical interactions with an invisible person where well
constructed. Although not very funny this mime covers series mime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA0v6Xp7CIU
The next piece was drive by mime where a mime took a member
of the audience up and took him for a drive in his car and although it was
silent the over exaggerated facial expressions and sound effects used really
tied this piece together. The communication between him and his audience was
clear and direct. And when things didn’t go to plan he worked around the
volunteer showing great improvisation skills. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPMBV3rd_hI
In mime we developed a mime performance and applied music
with a mime how the music could influence the performance. E.g. Tempo, Mood,
Support, Comedy, Styles.
Today’s lesson involved practicing our mimes and to act like
the ranking of a card e.g. Jack would be like a noble man or government member
where as a 3 would be a peasant or a thief. The feed back I received from the
second years where
Toby: Over exaggerate the facial expressions, acknowledge
the audience and keep my elbow in the case when I was getting strangled.
Oliver: It’s good but slow down the movements don’t rush
Jo’s: make the facial expressions bigger and don’t drag it
on.
My evaluation on my mime is I hope I did well and I was
disappointed that I didn’t get as many laughs as I expected.
My mime started out with being lost trying to find somewhere
by following directions I then having found a landmark or pointer from the map
proceeded that way then fell over a cat and found my self in front of
“Pandora’s box” when I first opened the box I discovered a blizzard inside it
was cold and a real struggle to close. Finding myself in bewilderment I decided
to open it again only to find a severed hand inside which I shut abruptly
because I felt sick. After I had closed it a few seconds the box began to shake
and as I opened it I saw the hand beginning to dance to which I closed it
again. Not believing what I saw I opened the box again and watched it dance
before realising what was happening I close it. I then wanted to see if the
hand was still dancing so I opened the box and looked deep inside but it had
disappeared which is when my nose started to drip blood (I used eye expressions
to describe the confusion I felt) which stopped on the box falling shut. I then
thought “what a crazy box this is” as I hit the lid twice. I then heard a voice
inside say “coming, coming I have something to tell you” on which I opened the
box and got my hand possessed by a puppet who seemed to be into phantom
menace/opera music I was laughing away the fear and surprise…. until it turned
round to face me then I got scared as it swayed back and forth like a cobra
about to strike. It suddenly attacks strangling me I then tried to force it
away before hitting with the lid of the box to which my real hand returned. But as my gaze shifted to the contents of the
box from hell I began to tremble terrified as I saw an evil unknown to me (use
of red light gel and torch) then my heart stops beating I try to restart it
hitting it hard and faster I then fall to the floor and a witches laugh echoed
out from the box until I slammed it shut in her nose to which she cried “oh my
nose” and I held up a sign saying “that’s enough Pandora” (this is written from
the point of view of the character who experienced these events)
