Single Performing Arts Lesson (26th January 2016)

In this lesson we decided we wanted to run our dance phrase and our scripted scene. We started by running through the scene again a couple of times to refresh everyone's memories and make sure we are all on the same page. We worked through the dance slowly at first to make sure we had the timings right before performing it at the right speed.

Once we had performed then both enough times that we were happy with them we decided to perform them both together. We were happy with the two scenes and agreed to start something new. We discussed different techniques and what one we believed would go well with our performance and the ones we had already included. 

We agreed on a soundscape as we had used it in a previous scene and it worked really well. We then discussed what sort of scene we thought it would work well in an abortion clinic scene. Therefore we brain stormed the sorts of noises you would hear in a hospital (abortion clinic), we came up with a heart monitor beeping, a clock ticking, footsteps, a heartbeat, and a baby crying. We then made these noises and quickly realised that we were going to need a sound effect of a baby crying as none of us could make this noise sound convincing.

We then decided to put some movement to it to make it look more interesting. We decided to stand in a straight line and move in a square shape, swapping positions with the person next to us.

I suggested that we should include some different acting techniques because our entire performance so far is based on movement and we should include some acting as well. Therefore we stopped with the soundscape for now, However we didn't have enough time to start on a new scene idea so we decided to go over the  dance into the scene and film it so we can see what its like ourselves and see how we can improve it.

After watching the video, we then realised that we forgot to stage it how we did before (with both pairs in different corners). However, we have decided to change the staging to fit the performance. We decided to make sure that Ollie and Lorna do their first dance behind Kat and I therefore we are visible as they are on a higher level than us because we are sitting and they are standing.