@The Arts Unit Creative Classes

Tune in and tune up

Discover drama warm-up games that will strengthen you vocally, physically and imaginatively

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 and 8 drama

What will I learn?

You will:

  • explore your physicality

  • energise your voice

  • enhance your imagination

  • reflect on the purpose of warm-ups and why they are important for an actor.

Before you begin

Welcome to Tune in and tune up!

In this class, you will go through some great drama warm-ups that you can add to your acting toolkit so you can be prepared for your next performance on stage, screen or TikToK!

You will need:

  • a clear space to move around safely

  • a pen and paper or your logbook.

  1. Explore your physicality

Warm up your face by saying the words, oranges and prunes.

  • When you say oranges, extend your face as wide as possible like you are yawning.

  • When you say prunes, scrunch your face as tight as possible like you smell something yucky.

  • Use a mirror to see how far you can stretch your face when you are speaking.

Warm-up for saying oranges.
Warm-up for face saying prunes.

Do you want to get physical?

Watch the video An Actor's Warm-Up and explore the full-body warm-up.

An Actor's Warm-Up

Duration: 05:39

2. Energise your voice

Watch the video Che Che Koolay.

Say the words:

  • Che Che Koolay

  • Che Cofisa

  • Cofisa Longa

  • A longa dai longa

  • A longa dai longa.

Che Che Koolay

Duration: 01:19

Watch the following video Che Che Koolay activity and use your face, body, voice and emotions to respond as you explore Che Che Koolay in this workshop.

Che Che Koolay activity

Duration: 01:44

Extend your vocal warm-up by exploring the exercises in this video An Actor’s Vocal Warm-Up.

An Actor's Vocal Warm-Up

Duration: 11:19

3. Enhance your imagination

Watch the video Season shuffle.

Season shuffle

Duration: 02:56

Look at the four corners of the space you are in right now.

Imagine each corner is a different season:

  • Summer

  • Spring

  • Winter

  • Autumn.

Play the music video AfterInfinity – Seasons.

Experiment with ways of moving between each of the four seasons by reacting physically to each change in the weather as you travel around the four corners of the space.

Explore this Season shuffle activity for 2 minutes as the music plays.

AfterInfinity – Seasons

Duration: 02:13

4. Reflect

Explore the Elements of drama poster and answer the following questions in your logbook:

Which of the elements of drama were you focusing on when you did Oranges and Prunes?

  • Place

  • Language

  • Symbol.

Which of the elements of drama were you focusing on when you did Che Che Koolay?

  • Movement

  • Structure

  • Situation.

Which of the elements of drama were you focusing on when you did the Season shuffle?

  • Sound

  • Structure

  • Atmosphere.

Answer the following questions in your logbook:

  • Describe the warm-up exercises you completed today.

  • Why is it important to warm up before performing?

  • How do you feel after warming up?

elements-of-drama-large-poster.pdf

Well done!

You have completed this @The Arts Unit Creative Class.

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