This week started with a lecture from Improv professional Rebecca Stockley. She has been hired by many studios including Pixar and Disney to give training to their animators in improvisation. The lecture was quite different to anything we've had before. She hosted a workshop with 3 'students' asking them to move in certain ways and styles and asked them to tell her what sort of character they feel would move in such ways. They came up with some interesting results. They tried walking with different speeds, wider spacing of the feet, lower bodies, lifting the knees, lifting the nose while walking, putting a bounce in the step. Then they tried an exercise where they changed the part of the body leading the walk - the head leading, the chest leading, the belly leading, the legs leading. The belly option they were asked to find a voice for that character lol! They also tried a walk where they lead with the head, but put the central focus outside infront of the head, then rotated this centre gradually round the head - producing a drunk walk! Quite amazing to watch.
We also looked at Laban notation where the contradictions in walk styles are slow/fast, direct/indirect, and light/heavy. The various combinations produce very different walks and characters.
Further more we looked at status and body language and how powerful they are at creating character identity.
For the assignment I added breakdowns and some inbetweens to the shot and here is the hand in for blocking plus, I think the assignment is starting to take some kind of form now!!! :-
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