Most of the lecture in class today was taken up by Stephanie explaining sensory recall and the class playing memory recall games. Sensory recall is about the brain storing memories of a certain event--taste of a food, smell of smoke at a birthday party, feeling sad when your boyfriend or girlfriend dumped you--and then you recalling those actions and sensations you felt at those hieghtend moments of your life as you perform on stage to bring out a more believable performance. the game we played involved touch and memory recall, eight people sat and closed their eyes while eight other students touched the sitting students to see of they could guess by touch who they where. I found this very challenging since Stephanie and Gabi decided to play a trick on me and both stick one of their hands in the palms of my hands. After the game we did yoga / relaxation exercises which I found rather relieving, I never knew yoga could be so fun.
Are assignment for class, other then work on your scenes / memorize lines, is to feel a blade of grass and look at a sunset - this is to capture the look and feel of the environment in hope of recalling it later.
Grass -- The grass was wet and smooth, almost like silk or butter. The color was a vibrant green and when broken smelled like... well, earth or grass. The grass felt prickly when touched against my hand. The blade wasn't very long, only about two inches in height at most.
Sunset -- bright orange and yellows mixed with red colored the sky as the sun set against the provo skyline late one September evening. The clouds were non existent which helped my view of the skyline. The air was calm and cold. The scene reminded me of the sunsets back home in Florida.
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