Double Performing Arts Lesson (10th February 2016)

In today's lesson we began working on the 5th section to our story 'The Snow Queen', section 5 was Rhiannon's scene.

Rhiannon decided she wanted her scene to be spoken rather than recorded. Her chosen technique was movement, she also liked the idea Charlie had to have people people copy specific words in the script. However instead of just picking random words out, Rhiannon decided to nominate a character to each person-
                       Lorna- Little Robber Maiden
                       Lewis- Gerda
                       Rob (me)- Gerda
                       Ollie K- Gerda
                       James Reindeer
                       Charlie- Pigeon

These characters we chosen because they had to most dialogue in the story, therefore Rhiannon decided she wanted us to read out the words from the script that we would, to make it more understandable for the audience to know who each character was.
We then decided to have a run through of the script reading out parts out as they come along in the script. We deiced instead of just reading it through it would be better to begin performing our scene along side the dialogue.
To incorporate the movement into the piece Rhiannon decided she wanted us to make movements on specific key words she says during the script (for example on the verb "dazzled", we all cover our eyes as if we became exposed to something dazzling.) We also included constant movement as well as gestures (for example when Rhiannon talks about 'the carriage' we clump together and sway side to side as a group as if we were in a carriage).
This is a good way to keep the audiences attention because it gives them a visual representation of the story as well as a verbal one.