Today we had Tom come in and he had observed from previous lessons that our dialogue is very poor so he took it upon himself to take the lesson and work with us to improve our dialogue. He talked about dominance with a scene, which he explained was who has control with the dialogue, the conversation, calls where the conversation goes and leads the objective/subject of the dialogue. I feel I have a very good sense of establishment when it comes to establishing the dominance within a scene/dialogue, but when it comes to devising I never take into account the dominant person or people (sometimes there can be more than one dominant character, sometimes all) so my script writing ability deteriorates as a result. However when improvising, I can do it quite well.
The main exercise we did was an improvisation exercise like park bench, but we were given context and each one was set inside a church (to link in with our devised piece). I found this very hard purely because Henri was told to use a Jamaican accent so it then became a game of 'try not to laugh' which even still I wasn't very good at. However the explanation of the concepts behind dialogue, improvising and script writing was very useful.
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