Drama Lesson Mime
Drama Lesson Mime
Drama Lesson Mime
Learners Objectives: Students will learn about miming, through studying different miming techniques and demonstrating mime movements. Students will learn and will be able to demonstrate exaggerated body movements as a means to communicate non-verbally Objectives: Students will demonstrate: 1)
varying speed of movement. 2) movement to communicate non-verbally. 3) exaggerated movement and gesture. 4)use of the body and body language to enhance characterization.
Course: Drama Date: Oct 18th, 2010 Materials: MIME VIDEO LINKS:
Marcel Face:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i99k7nCnVwM&feature=related Marcel Lion Tamer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbtGAF_gXc Mime Facial Expression: http://www.ehow.com/video_2382436_mime-facial-expressions.html Touching a round object: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cVFHaQ2How&p=8D886271D5A70DB0&playnext=1 Leaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=B9elTiSaiSQ&p=8D886271D5A70DB0&index=11&feature=BF Being Pulled: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8sofP8bWdIo&p=8D886271D5A70DB0&index=19&feature=BF The box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2J_gYDuE24 Pull a rope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxITQc5uu-g
-Get students facing teacher and listening -Explain objective (1-4) (1min.) -Explain rules of maturity -Watch Marcel videos (Facial expression, lion tamer) instruct students to pay attention to precise/slow movements, facial expression, and how he moves one body part at a time. (5 min.) -Discuss the video (1min.) -Do mirroring activity as a class (students follow teacher) (2 min.) -Do mirroring activity in partners (after practice two chosen students will walk around the room and try to guess who is the follower in the exercise, once they have guessed right they take their place, while the other two walk the room and try to find the follower in different pair. Maybe have two pairs roaming the room?(Teacher will set up other videos while this happens) (5 min.) -Wrist warm ups, pushing against the wall exercise (30 sec.) -Watch first mime technique (2 min)x 6 -Practice technique as a class (2 min)x6 -Move down the list (watching first, then practicing).
Learners Activities: 10mins -Participate through listening to the instructor and watching the videos -Participate in group discussion -Participate in mirroring exercises -Participate in wrist warm-ups -Participate in watching mime technique videos and practicing the techniques after. -Do effort evaluation (2 min.) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY: -Perform miming techniques in front of the class box, rope, drinking, leaning
Summary: Reinforce the objectives for miming. Discuss how these skills will be transferred over to performances. Assessment (For Learning): Learners then finish up activity and rate from 1-5 how they felt about the class 1- Put in little or no effort 2- Showed effort 3- Did my best work Assessment (Of Learning): Teacher observation throughout class. (and in future performance?)
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