Feb. 11th, 2012 (edited)

Today we played a game "tableaux" which is french for whiteboard where we got into groups, chose a theme, and did a still life of the theme and got all hidden meaning-ish and stuff. A "Tableaux" is made up of three main parts: Energy, Levels, & Proximics. In other words, they are what make a good tableax. With the right energy, the audience should still be able to tell generally what message is being portrayed by the emotions, muscle tensity and postures of the actors. Levels because it ads a whole other depth to the scene and more actions instead of just having three or four people standing their. Proximity because it helps give a message or story to the audience by distancing the actors either closer or further apart and by who is facing what. These 3 things help make a good "tableaux" and to help improve your stage presence. Like during one "Tableaux" we did, in order to give a fuller impression, I kneeled down in order to give an impression of my groupmates and I sort of fighting for a thing. I would've just been standing their awkwardly without a solid roll in it. Another thing we did was look at a bunch of the paintings around your classroom and analyzed them or what colors mean. We only had time to go over the scream guy and this one with an orange and a yellow square. I sort of got where we were going with scream guy. The colors that made up the background really enhanced the creepy eerie feeling of it. But I just can't see any possible meaning or reason WHY the one that looked like macaroni & cheese one is supposed to be special, or even famous, or valuable in any way. I wouldn't spend $5 on it. I mean, I can make 2 colored squares  and no one would give me any large sums of money or fame. I will accept deeper meaning in a work of art, but there has to be something there in order for there to be something under it. That is my opinion and I'm sticking to it. sorry to get going on such a rant but, yea. The scream guy one did show show me that seemingly random things can have a hidden meaning that isn't so easy to find unless you think (even though I already knew that). That being said, I do agree that colors can have positive or  negative affectts on peoples reactions especially when paired together. In the scream guy painting, there were many levels and proximics to show how they can alter a fealing of a scenario.