COMMEDIA, COMMEDIA, COMMEDIA

COMMEDIA, COMMEDIA, COMMEDIA

Monday 11th of February:

We started off the lesson with Mr.Fearnehough reminding us that the deadline for the commedia piece or the deadline for a rough draft to show to get some ideas and criticism that was meant to be this week. Obviously that has not happened because we haven't finished devising the scenes and we haven't properly sorted out the technical parts. We decided to then postpone  the deadline to give us more time to work on it.

Wednesday 13th of February:

 

We started the lesson with a warm up from Mary and Mr.Fearnehough took lots of props for us to use during the devising, he took them out so we could use them for new ideas. Abby also brought so props from her home and we all had lots of ideas of stuff we could bring in. We then strated working on devising the lovers scene. We added lots of Lazzi to it and brought in the Zanni to have a bit of fun with the scene. after we did this Mr.Fearnehough talked to us about reflecting on what we have done for the blogs and the PPP's. He then talked to us about then 'Process of an Actor' and what is learned and done during the process of acting and working on that:

 

-Warm ups - getting our bodies ready to do something

- Mask making - see how props are made and help us talk about it in future.

- Devising - going through each scene and giving new ideas and keep going.

- being open minded to people's ideas.
- trying out a lot of different things such as props, costumes, masks to get the feel and get characteristics of characters right.
- having a set director for the rehearsals.
We then discussed about all of this and decided for the warm ups we should be in proper focus, not spend to long on them and use music to set a focus and set a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere to set the focus level.
After this we went back to devising and there was a little accident and we all learnt from that, we learnt we should always be looking out for each other and rehearsals are a bit dangerous and we have to always be watching each others back to make sure no one gets hurt.

Thursday 14th of February:
 Mr. Fearnehough did the warm up and did 'Acting by Numbers'. This was a very good activity and was something Lydia, Axel and myself have already done in TaPS and is a good way of getting focussed and going through all the tension levels. In Mr.Fearnehough's warm up we had to each sit on chairs and be natural, we had to the pretend we were watching a film at the cinema. Our first reaction we had to do was reacting to a love scene and for every person on the chair we had a number and we had to increasingly had to react using the tension level numbers. We then used a scary film and a funny film, Mr.Fearnehough then made the point in telling us that if one person increases it or adds a sound or even gets up off their chair and runs away it helps the others after them to do something better and bigger and they shouldn't feel embarrassed. Because everyone was doing it I didn't feel embarrassed and just went for it and it felt more fun and I didn't feel like I was holding back anything.
After this warm up we then continued the devising on the cinema scene and we have come up with some funny stuff and I really hope the audience will find it funny because we all find it funny.