In today's lesson we decided to run the entire piece from beginning to end as we were rapidly running out of time before the performance and we hadn't had a full run though yet.
Unfortunately we were unable to work on our silhouette piece today as we had to use the hall, however we were still able to run through all the scenes. We tried to work through the scenes without the scripts, in my opinion baring in mind this was the first time we were running through without scripts, I believe we did quite well as we only needed a few visual cues and prompts as we went through, the majority of the scenes were done without scripts.
For our next lesson we quite desperately need to use C6 to work on our silhouettes as these were the main visual attraction in our piece and we hadn't worked on them yet. We also need to go through scenes 5 and 6 again with no scripts without stopping.
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Single Performing Arts Lesson (8th March 2016)
In today's lesson we created a scene order and had a full run through, but pausing after each scene to make notes on what needs improving.
- Our scene order:
"Party Scene"
"Before the Game Show"
"Game Show"
"After the Games Show"
"Chasing Pavements (Dance Scene)"
"Confession"
"Chasing Pavements (Dance Scene) Reverse"
"Abortion Clinic"
We thought it would be interesting to start with the Party scene as the audience would think the rest of the piece would be fun and crazy (as it starts with Ollie and Lorna pretending they were at a party), thus making the shocking scenes to come more hard-hitting. We decided to go with our "Game show" scene next as this is the scene that would make the audience feel the most uncomfortable, and having this scene after our "Party" would form a massive contrast in atmosphere causing the audience to be weary of what's to come.
As the three parts of our "Game Show" scene are dialogue based, we decided to go back into another movement piece next so we went for out original scene that the entire story is based around our "Chasing Pavements Movement Scene" followed by our confession scene and finished off with our sound scape.
The picture shows the ending of our piece after the sound scape, we decided to use a motif and -go back to our child like states (E.G- Holding the book) and Lorna and Kat became embryos again as if they are going back to before the birth or the abortion leaving it to the audiences imagination on how the story should end, weather the baby was aborted or not.
- Our scene order:
"Party Scene"
"Before the Game Show"
"Game Show"
"After the Games Show"
"Chasing Pavements (Dance Scene)"
"Confession"
"Chasing Pavements (Dance Scene) Reverse"
"Abortion Clinic"
We thought it would be interesting to start with the Party scene as the audience would think the rest of the piece would be fun and crazy (as it starts with Ollie and Lorna pretending they were at a party), thus making the shocking scenes to come more hard-hitting. We decided to go with our "Game show" scene next as this is the scene that would make the audience feel the most uncomfortable, and having this scene after our "Party" would form a massive contrast in atmosphere causing the audience to be weary of what's to come.
As the three parts of our "Game Show" scene are dialogue based, we decided to go back into another movement piece next so we went for out original scene that the entire story is based around our "Chasing Pavements Movement Scene" followed by our confession scene and finished off with our sound scape. The picture shows the ending of our piece after the sound scape, we decided to use a motif and -go back to our child like states (E.G- Holding the book) and Lorna and Kat became embryos again as if they are going back to before the birth or the abortion leaving it to the audiences imagination on how the story should end, weather the baby was aborted or not.
Single Performing Arts Lesson (3rd March)
In today's lesson Lorna, Ollie and Kat caught me up on what I missed last lesson, They showed me the start of the party scene they had been working on and they fitted me into it. Therefore in today's lesson we decided to work on and complete the party scene.We split off in our group, as Kat and I went off to learn our script for the party scene and Ollie and Lorna continued to work on and perfect the dances moves.
Once Lorna and Ollie were happy with their dance Kat and I read our script over the top of the dancing to see if the timing worked together with the two pieces.
Once we altered the speed of the narration to fit with the dance and we were happy it worked Kat began to work on the story book to gives us a prop to use and I wrote the script up making it easier to read when we were performing.
We decided we wanted to have a change throughout our piece to show the characters starting off as kids and growing us as the performance went on, therefore Kat called the story book "The Princess and the Party" to make it sound as childish as possible.
As we wanted to show all throughout the piece the idea of sex through movement and sound, we agreed on the "Fifty Shades of Grey" version of "Crazy in Love" to be played over the dance to further imitate the idea of sex.
Once Lorna and Ollie were happy with their dance Kat and I read our script over the top of the dancing to see if the timing worked together with the two pieces.
Once we altered the speed of the narration to fit with the dance and we were happy it worked Kat began to work on the story book to gives us a prop to use and I wrote the script up making it easier to read when we were performing.
We decided we wanted to have a change throughout our piece to show the characters starting off as kids and growing us as the performance went on, therefore Kat called the story book "The Princess and the Party" to make it sound as childish as possible.
As we wanted to show all throughout the piece the idea of sex through movement and sound, we agreed on the "Fifty Shades of Grey" version of "Crazy in Love" to be played over the dance to further imitate the idea of sex.
Double Performing Arts Lessons (24th February and 2nd March 2016)
24th February
We began today's lesson by going back over Lorna's scene, all we needed for this scene was to record and perform with the narration and perform with the masks. Lorna decided she wanted to make an instrumental piece playing beneath her narration as her scene was very movement based, she believed a moving piece of music would add something extra to her piece.
-Lorna chose "7 years" by "Lukas Graham" for her piece and we ran through her scene with the music playing in the background. In my opinion I believe this piece worked very well, as it is soft which matches the mood of her scene and the movement works very well with the piano riff.
2nd March
We began this lesson by running through Lorna's scene again however this time we used her narration she had recorded for this lesson, we also used the music again to see how it worked with the narration over the top of it. Baring in mind this was the first time we had gone through the scene without any scripts I believe we were successful with it as were made minor mistakes that we quickly ironed out and the music worked very well with the narration. As Lorna's was a very short scene the time of the piece was just enough to fill the scene without having to be put on repeat.
After Lorna's scene we moved back onto scene 2 which was James's scene. James decided he wanted to perform his scene live without narration, luckily we didn't have to try and learn James's piece around the narration, so if the timing is off he is able to slow down or speed up his speech depending on the movement. However overall I believe James's piece worked quite well. We still have a couple of minor timing issues we need to work on but that is easily fixed in the next couple of lessons.
We began today's lesson by going back over Lorna's scene, all we needed for this scene was to record and perform with the narration and perform with the masks. Lorna decided she wanted to make an instrumental piece playing beneath her narration as her scene was very movement based, she believed a moving piece of music would add something extra to her piece.
-Lorna chose "7 years" by "Lukas Graham" for her piece and we ran through her scene with the music playing in the background. In my opinion I believe this piece worked very well, as it is soft which matches the mood of her scene and the movement works very well with the piano riff.
2nd March
We began this lesson by running through Lorna's scene again however this time we used her narration she had recorded for this lesson, we also used the music again to see how it worked with the narration over the top of it. Baring in mind this was the first time we had gone through the scene without any scripts I believe we were successful with it as were made minor mistakes that we quickly ironed out and the music worked very well with the narration. As Lorna's was a very short scene the time of the piece was just enough to fill the scene without having to be put on repeat.
After Lorna's scene we moved back onto scene 2 which was James's scene. James decided he wanted to perform his scene live without narration, luckily we didn't have to try and learn James's piece around the narration, so if the timing is off he is able to slow down or speed up his speech depending on the movement. However overall I believe James's piece worked quite well. We still have a couple of minor timing issues we need to work on but that is easily fixed in the next couple of lessons.
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