Stage Combat

The human eye lacks the ability to see the real depth, by taking this as an advantage we as performers can make a stunt look effective and by using depth control we can do it in a safe environment.

This move to me didn't feel natural, we had to pretend to grab something on the victims shoulder.

• I do think it looks effective and i think it goes well in a fight scene.
• the victim has to make the knap quicker so its not obvious to the audience
• with the profile slap you can have an circle audience. you can have the audience all round and in different places.
• The audience can only be end on.

I look closer than I actually am

The move looks effective due to depth perception

it's when the victim has there back to the audience

so they can create 'The Knap' without being seen.

- I prefer this move more becuase it's one i would use more

in a fight and i personally feel its looks more effective.

For Up down slap

For Profile slap

Depth Perception

Set the depth perception

• keeps a safe distance between partners
• gives the illusion that we are nearer than we are.
• human eye lacks depth

Profile Slap

Up down Slap

Victim Control

Action/Reaction

In stage combat the victim always pocesses the control in the scene.

They control the pace and sequence they scene or move goes in.

Stage Combat

Action and reaction: is when some does something and you have to react to it.

• Up and down slap - The aggressor swings to slap and when it gets to a certain point the victim makes the knap sound. without the swing the victim wouldn't know when to make the knap.
• hook punch: without the aggressor making the knap the victim wouldn't know when to react.

Que To React)

React

Action (Raise Arm)

Mis-Direction

After a while your hands

start to hurt - you get

nappy rash

Mis-direction is where the aggressor or the victim gets the audience to focus on one thing so that the knap isn't seen.

magicians use this so the audience do not see how the trick is really done.

Hand cups which helps create the sound

imagine the surface is your chest

and this the sound the knap makes.

Over Hat Punch

Dialation

Imagine your drunk and taking a swing

at a sober person.

For Profile And Up down Slap

we used dialation and oppostion to exagerate and make the moves more clear and to create more tension and antipaction.

If your going to go from a 'over hat punch' into a 'Hook punch' you need to line yourself up and set the depth perception after the 'Over hat punch'.

For Hook Punch

Opposition

Knap

Evaluation

Hook Punch

Duck and weeve: when the aggressor performs the 'over hat punch' the victim needs to follow the movement and the rhythm and duck and weeve

A knap is the on stage sound effect the victim makes.

Stangle

We used this to exagerate the moves and to make them more clear. i learnt that by using this and by using dilation that they really help the moves look more effect and they help you remember the moves and gets them perfect. And you don't just use them for pyhical score, its in more things.

It can be performed any way, profile or up and down. but its better in up and down.

Set the depth perception

The Audience Is End On

• I really enjoyed this workshop i've got a real sense of stage combat now. It's like when your watching a magic trick from the audience and you want to know how they do that, and now I know who stage combat happens, I want to learn more stage combat!
• I learnt that depth deception is really important in the sense that you could really hit someone for real and really damage them and their career's.
• I Learnt that in stage combat mis-direction is really important to the stunt as it takes the audiences focus away from the knap.
• I learnt that ques are very important and not only speech ques but movement ques.

Need more dramatic effects.

Aggressor Faces back to

audience so they don't

see the knap

Knap on the chest - not hands - less obvious to detect.

With 'The Strangle' both the aggressor and the victim have to have tension in the hands. The victim will pull the aggressors arms out whilst the aggressor will push in, this will create tension and therefore it looks effective but isn't actually strangelling.

I think this move looks really good in a fight scene.

• As the victim you have to have big dramatics and you have to know how to react to being punch. you would stagger, fall over, cry, bleed. its a bigger reaction than a slap.

I Was always the aggressor when it came to the strangelling, because i didn't like making the noises. I think this move is very effective and well done as it really looks like your being strangelled.

• speed - you have to remember it doesn't take a couple of seconds to strangel someone it take a while. you have you think of the pace. you have to make the timing look real.
• the victim always control the pace and the direction of the move.

Arm has to be in a right angle so its no where near the victims face when you swing, so it hooks round your body when you swing.