Stanislavski Steps & terminology: 

1. Units and super objective 
2. Invisible rays 
3. Relaxation exercises and focus 
4. Stripping off our socialized selves 
5. what, why, where questions 
6. The 'germ' (backbone) 
7. Psychophysical action 
8. Given circumstances 
9. Imagination

How we practised these: 
Relaxation - To practise relaxation we used a meditation technique, to do this we all had to sit in a circle facing away from each other cross legged with our hands on our knees and meditate. I found this very hard at the beginning as I felt very self conscious, mostly because we had to make an "um" sound and no one wanted to start it off. However after a while I found that this became easier as I started to become less aware of the people around me and more focused on just myself. This was much easier the second time we did this exercise. After doing this I did feel more relaxed and calm. This meditation exercise is supposed to:

• Make your mind & body feel at peace with the world 
• Get rid of your socialized self 
• Help you adopt the "free-body" mind state, this is when you have a free state of mind, you are both stress and physically free

Psychophysical action - Using emotion memory, this is when you use a memory that provokes an emotion which can be used for a piece of drama. To practice this we took an extract from "A dolls house" and used emotion memory to provoke the relevant memories. I found this quite hard at the beginning as I found myself trying to think about my memory while at the same time trying to play a completely different character and read the lines. I felt this became a lot easier when the script was taken away as I felt it helped me focus more on the emotions without worrying about speech. Emotion memory helps with psychophysical action as it helps the actor connect the characters mind and body together, resulting in more believable acting.

Given circumstances - To practice this we were given a list of given circumstances such as "I share," and "I attack," we all had to choose one and preform the relevant actions to go with it. The others in the group then had to say whether they felt that the action was believable or not. At first I found this hard as I was using actions that did not look like they could actually be realistic, I felt this could have been because I was feeling slightly self-conscious as it was the first time I was doing something with an audience. However as we continued I actually started to enjoy the task a lot more. This helped to think about given circumstances as we had to think about:

• What else is in the room/space?
• Who am I with? 
• Where have I just come from? 
• Why am I here?