We began this lesson by finishing off our masks, we added elastic to the back of the mask to keep them on our faces when we are moving around . We then decided to do a character warm up with our masks to give us more of an idea of what are characters will be like in our performance. I personally believe the masks really help with our focus during the lessons as they help to keep us in character, therefore if we want to speak as ourselves we have to turn to the wall and take our mask off and then talk in the hopes it won't destroy the illusion of having our characters different to our real selves.
We decided as we were getting into the idea of characters we ran a character profile exercise in the hopes we will pick up character traits to help us with our scenes.
We then ran through a physical warm up, this is important for us to reduce the risk of getting an injury.
After this we brainstormed new ideas for our scenes. We spent the lesson creating a thought chart of how we want our scenes to work and what we want in them.
We started with the setting- We agreed on two different ideas we would create scenes for and see which one we preferred, these were a wedding story line and a restaurant story line. We used this lesson to work on the restaurant idea, we worked out who we wanted in our restaurant to match our characters personalities, therefore we decided on guests, manager, head chef, dishwasher and waiter.
We decided we wanted The Doctor and Pantalone to be the guests, we wanted Brighella to be the manager, Il Capitano to be the head chef, Colombina and Harlequin to be the waiters and Zanni to be the dish washer.
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Sinlge Performing Arts Lessons (25th and 26th February 2016)
25th February
To begin today's lesson we decided we wanted to complete our movement section for our sound scape and also we began writing our "behind the scene's" section after our game show.
We decided we wanted to make a rehearsal schedule to ensure we kept up to date with everything we want to include in our performance with plenty of time. We intend to stick to this schedule as best as we can, in the hopes we can complete everything still giving up time to rehearse and perfect our performance.
We decided we wanted to video our movement piece for our abortion clinic, so we could go back over it and see how it looks, therefore we know what looks right and what works, so we know what we need to add or take out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QEITNY004&feature=player_embedded
(The link shows the video of our scene)
I believe the message we were trying to put a cross was a bit confusing at first. The idea was supposed to be Kat and Lorna doing the movement at exactly the same time to show they were the same person, however even for me watching it back over it was a bit confusing what the movement was supposed to be without having it explained to me. However I believe the fact that it was supposed to be a hospital was clear because of the audio, however it is clear that we still need to put more work into this scene.
26th February
Unfortunately last lesson we ran out of time to work on our continuation of the Game Show scene, as we were busy with our abortion clinic scene. Therefore we decided to move away from the movement scenes today and work on all three parts to our Game Show.
We began by sitting down as a group and beginning to plan a script for the 'behind the scenes' (after the Game Show) scene.
We wanted to top the un-comfortableness and the inappropriate nature of the Game Show in our final Game Show scene, with the intention to make the audience feel uncomfortable. We wanted to keep this scene short but affective, giving each person only 1 or 2 lines each, but making it uncomfortable for everyone in the room (including confrontations and swearing).
In our next lesson we will run all three parts of our Game Show and film it, so we can see what we want to add or remove from our scene.
To begin today's lesson we decided we wanted to complete our movement section for our sound scape and also we began writing our "behind the scene's" section after our game show.
We decided we wanted to make a rehearsal schedule to ensure we kept up to date with everything we want to include in our performance with plenty of time. We intend to stick to this schedule as best as we can, in the hopes we can complete everything still giving up time to rehearse and perfect our performance.
We decided we wanted to video our movement piece for our abortion clinic, so we could go back over it and see how it looks, therefore we know what looks right and what works, so we know what we need to add or take out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QEITNY004&feature=player_embedded
(The link shows the video of our scene)
I believe the message we were trying to put a cross was a bit confusing at first. The idea was supposed to be Kat and Lorna doing the movement at exactly the same time to show they were the same person, however even for me watching it back over it was a bit confusing what the movement was supposed to be without having it explained to me. However I believe the fact that it was supposed to be a hospital was clear because of the audio, however it is clear that we still need to put more work into this scene.
26th February
Unfortunately last lesson we ran out of time to work on our continuation of the Game Show scene, as we were busy with our abortion clinic scene. Therefore we decided to move away from the movement scenes today and work on all three parts to our Game Show.
We began by sitting down as a group and beginning to plan a script for the 'behind the scenes' (after the Game Show) scene.
We wanted to top the un-comfortableness and the inappropriate nature of the Game Show in our final Game Show scene, with the intention to make the audience feel uncomfortable. We wanted to keep this scene short but affective, giving each person only 1 or 2 lines each, but making it uncomfortable for everyone in the room (including confrontations and swearing).
In our next lesson we will run all three parts of our Game Show and film it, so we can see what we want to add or remove from our scene.
Friday, 11 March 2016
Single Performing Arts Lesson (23rd February 2016)
23rd February
To begin this lesson we decided as we hadn't been over our first scenes in a while we wanted to refresh our memories on how much work was put into our original scenes, therefore we decide to have a full run through of the scenes we have so far.
We started off with our intercourse movement scene, moving onto our dialogue scene with the friends. As we had spent a long time on these two scenes even though we hadn't gone through them in a while we were still pretty confident with what to say.
Therefore we decided we wanted to spend more time on the scenes we hadn't worked on as much, which were the Game Show scenes. Although we knew what was going on in these scenes it was clear they hadn't been practised as much as the previous scenes, therefore we needed to go through the dialogue more and the staging.
We realised that trying to do to much work in a short space of time wouldn't benefit us in our performance therefore we decided to dedicate next lesson to the game show. So we could brush up on the opening and the actual game show itself and potentially include an after the game show scene as well.
Therefore instead of re going over our scenes again, we agreed to record the audio for our Abortion Clinic scene. We discussed noises that would be typical for this particular scene, and we came up with a list that included- A heart monitor, a heart beat, a therapeutic voice (breath in/breath out) and breathing). We designated an audio to each member of out group- Lorna- Heart Beat Monitor, Katya- Breathing, Ollie- Therapist (Breath in/Breath out) and Rob (Me) Heart Beat.
We then decided to begin developing a movement section to go with the sound scape, so the audience had something to watch whilst listening to the sound scape. However, we didn't finish this movement section this lesson, so we made a plan to complete it in the next few lesson.
To begin this lesson we decided as we hadn't been over our first scenes in a while we wanted to refresh our memories on how much work was put into our original scenes, therefore we decide to have a full run through of the scenes we have so far.
We started off with our intercourse movement scene, moving onto our dialogue scene with the friends. As we had spent a long time on these two scenes even though we hadn't gone through them in a while we were still pretty confident with what to say.
Therefore we decided we wanted to spend more time on the scenes we hadn't worked on as much, which were the Game Show scenes. Although we knew what was going on in these scenes it was clear they hadn't been practised as much as the previous scenes, therefore we needed to go through the dialogue more and the staging.
We realised that trying to do to much work in a short space of time wouldn't benefit us in our performance therefore we decided to dedicate next lesson to the game show. So we could brush up on the opening and the actual game show itself and potentially include an after the game show scene as well.
Therefore instead of re going over our scenes again, we agreed to record the audio for our Abortion Clinic scene. We discussed noises that would be typical for this particular scene, and we came up with a list that included- A heart monitor, a heart beat, a therapeutic voice (breath in/breath out) and breathing). We designated an audio to each member of out group- Lorna- Heart Beat Monitor, Katya- Breathing, Ollie- Therapist (Breath in/Breath out) and Rob (Me) Heart Beat.
We then decided to begin developing a movement section to go with the sound scape, so the audience had something to watch whilst listening to the sound scape. However, we didn't finish this movement section this lesson, so we made a plan to complete it in the next few lesson.
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Double Performing Arts Lesson (22nd February 2016)
In today's lesson we decided that now he have completed all 7 stories we would run them all and see how much more work we would need to spend on each of our stories.
-- Therefore we started with Lorna's story- We ran through with minimal mistakes, however as it was the first story we hadn't gone over it in a long time, we were a little unsure on movement at times, however we were able to over for each other successfully and complete the scene. Therefore for this scene all we needed now was for Lorna to record her audio and run through with the audio.
-- We moved onto story 2- (James's story)- We spent the most time on this scene so we were all reasonably okay with it. However we still needed to practice with the projection sheet, and make sure our shapes looks good whilst behind the sheet. James also decided to cut more out of his scene during the week, therefore we needed to practice over with the new updated script. Therefore for this scene all we need now is to work with the sheet up and make sure it all runs smoothly.
-- Our third story (Lewis's story) is also quite well organised, the only improvement we need to make on Lewis's is to get Rhiannon up to date on our performance as she has only gone through this scene once. Therefore for this scene we need to fit the scene around Rhiannon (who is the Snow Queen) and get it up to date with her included in the story.
-- Story four is my story. There is still more in my story that is needed to be but out, as I had the longest story and even after a lot of cutting is still too long, and difficult for everyone to learn in the short space of time we have to do our performance in. I also still need to record my audio and run through the movement again to fit with the recorded audio to insure it runs smoothly and together.
-- For Rhiannon's story, we needed to neaten up the movement to make it work with the speech in the story. However apart from that we were pretty much up to date with it, we knew which key words we needed movement on and which lines we would be repeating along with Rhiannon, therefore all we had to do was match the movement to the audio.
-- In story 6 (Charlie's story) we needed to do a lot of work on the movement, we needed to add movement in, too match his narration. Charlie Decided he wanted to use similar techniques to Rhiannon, to have key words to included specific pieces of movement, therefore we needed to decide what key words we wanted and included movement with.
For Oliver's scene there is no movement, he wanted to use projection therefore I would need to set up the projection and lighting and run through the scene, to make sure it looks affective for Oliver to narrate around it.
-- Therefore we started with Lorna's story- We ran through with minimal mistakes, however as it was the first story we hadn't gone over it in a long time, we were a little unsure on movement at times, however we were able to over for each other successfully and complete the scene. Therefore for this scene all we needed now was for Lorna to record her audio and run through with the audio.
-- We moved onto story 2- (James's story)- We spent the most time on this scene so we were all reasonably okay with it. However we still needed to practice with the projection sheet, and make sure our shapes looks good whilst behind the sheet. James also decided to cut more out of his scene during the week, therefore we needed to practice over with the new updated script. Therefore for this scene all we need now is to work with the sheet up and make sure it all runs smoothly.
-- Our third story (Lewis's story) is also quite well organised, the only improvement we need to make on Lewis's is to get Rhiannon up to date on our performance as she has only gone through this scene once. Therefore for this scene we need to fit the scene around Rhiannon (who is the Snow Queen) and get it up to date with her included in the story.
-- Story four is my story. There is still more in my story that is needed to be but out, as I had the longest story and even after a lot of cutting is still too long, and difficult for everyone to learn in the short space of time we have to do our performance in. I also still need to record my audio and run through the movement again to fit with the recorded audio to insure it runs smoothly and together.
-- For Rhiannon's story, we needed to neaten up the movement to make it work with the speech in the story. However apart from that we were pretty much up to date with it, we knew which key words we needed movement on and which lines we would be repeating along with Rhiannon, therefore all we had to do was match the movement to the audio.
-- In story 6 (Charlie's story) we needed to do a lot of work on the movement, we needed to add movement in, too match his narration. Charlie Decided he wanted to use similar techniques to Rhiannon, to have key words to included specific pieces of movement, therefore we needed to decide what key words we wanted and included movement with.
For Oliver's scene there is no movement, he wanted to use projection therefore I would need to set up the projection and lighting and run through the scene, to make sure it looks affective for Oliver to narrate around it.
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