Monday we discussed and got reminded that the deadline of our commedia piece was meant to be this wednesday but that was not going to happen! We don't have to stick to official dates in our action plan and I can see why we havn't hit that deadline because we have done a lot of work that was not devising like mask making for example. All of those things though are great ways to understand Commedia and talk about how we took part in theatre in the making. We then went on practising again with the restaurant scene, which we have worked a lot on but I think we have so many ideas for it that it needed a lot of work. I think it is going very well though and I am happy how well we are all working together.
Wednesday 13th February-
this was our double lesson and i felt we got a lot of practical and theory work done!
Mary was director for the lesson and we began with a warm-up of stretching which was good as it was a double lesson of a lot of movement. Mr Fearnehough got out lots of props and stuff for us to work with so that we could get ideas from these props. We started working with the scene where the lovers bump into eachother and meet. We felt that this scene was very short and as it is quite a romantic scene, we felt we needed more humour in it as our super-objective of the whole play is to make the audience laugh. We exaggerated the dialogue of mary and abby so it was very cheesy. We also added in the zanni(me and bekki) to come in like an ambulance when the lovers fall over and we REALLY OVER-EXAGGERATE when abby falls over and we try to put in as much humour as possible in. We then started the cinema scene after which is a scene we are all in! We thought of ways we can all enter for each person and this helped to show off our characters and personality more.
After our first our, we then had a theory section where we spoke about the process of an actor. We have done a lot when making our commedia piece. There are reasons to why we have done everything we did and it is good to reflect on this. for our TPPP's. It shows what we have learnt during the process of being an actor.
- Warm-ups= this is to obviously stretch before doing lots of movement, health and safety reasons but also warm-ups bring focus to our class which is key to get more work done. They can also bring our team together depending on the type of warm-up they are.
- Mask-making= the mask making was a good way to get to know our commedia characters even better but also mask-making was a piece of theatre in the making! Which is experience and also good to talk about for our TPP's.
- Taking turns to direct the class-= this is good because it helps keep the focus of the group by having someone in charge. It is also a good way to understand different roles in theatre.
After our discussion, we went back to devising more and we practised with the cinema scene again.A little accident happened where axel got injured. It was all by accident but it shows that even when we are using props and stuff we have to take into consideration health and safety of everything because the theatre is a very dangerous place. We ALL know now that we have to be very careful when throwing things and using things :)
Thursday 14th February-
We began with a warm-up from Mr Fearnehough which was acting by numbers. I really loved this warm-up because i think it helped me and everyone else to really let themselves go and act! We had to act the emtions we got from 1-10 when watching either romantic, horror or comedy film. It was very funny to see everyones reactions and we all really went for it. This warm-up exercise helped because we realised that the more we exaggerate and go for it, the funnier it is which is what we want for our audience. We then carried on rehearsing our cinema scene and we all really went for it.
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