In today's lesson we decided to work on dialogue, as part of our marking criteria talks about 'the use of different techniques'. Therefore as we focused on movement last lesson we moved onto dialogue. We began discussing a scene we thought would need a lot of dialogue. We decided this would be the scene we wanted to be hard hitting so we discussed ideas of gritty dialogue. We then thought of a conversation (duologue) between the pregnant girl and her best friend. We discussed using a mirrored effect, so we thought that Kat and Lorna could be the same person throughout the piece and Ollie and I would be the same person throughout the piece as well. However, the relationships couples would be Kat & I and Ollie & Lorna.
We started our the scene having Kat telling Ollie that she is pregnant. We didn't want the entire performance to be depressing so we wanted to try and introduce some comedic lines into our dialogue.
We tried out a few ideas for Lorna and I to be introduced. We Kat and I back to back whilst she has her conversation with Ollie I have the same conversation with Lorna but mimed. This was a good idea however it was complicated and hard for an audience to understand, However we liked the idea for Kat and I to be back to back as it shows the two conversations with the same people but with different intentions.
We decided to try out cross cutting the scene. Therefore Lorna and I wrote a new script that links in with Ollie and Kat's.
As we didn't have long left of the lesson we ran the new scene to see where we were with it. So Kat and I started off back to back with Lorna and Ollie on opposite sides of the stage. Our conversations were very controversial as Kat was telling Ollie she didn't want to keep the baby and she was going to abort the baby (making it all a joke) and I was telling Lorna that I didn't want to her about it and she doesn't care about how I feel.
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