This lesson, Mr Fearnehough was away and we had an hour to carry on working on our piece. We decided to try cutting down the piece as it was too long. We sat down and went through each scene, agreeing on what we could get rid of or keep. We then went through the play from the beginning but didn't manage to get to the last scene. On our list of improvements to make, the love scene had to be improved. Mary and Abby needed to act more in love and more enthusiastic. We did focus on this scene and Mary and Abby did a good job of making it more in love, realistic and loud. We cut out the zanni in this scene where we come in as an ambulance to help Jack from his fall. We reflected on it and found it didn't work because it took too much time, it was not important and it wasn't funny. There was not audience interaction with it and it didn't really fit to the scene. I felt that this was an important scene to work on because it lets the characters Rose and Jack show the audience their love for one another which is the main storyline and as there is so much going on, we tend to forget this.
Wednesday 20th March -
We began with two warm-ups today. One was the slow motion race which we had already done before. This was good to get the group focused. The next warm up was a clowning activity called Clowning by numbers. We were put into pairs and had to take turns one by one counting up to 10. It sounded easy but it actuallly wasn't. We thought we had mastered it until Mr.F added in actions like clapping, spinning, weird noises into different noises. It got very difficult! We then had to perform it for everybody and it we messed up, that person would get a slap on the head by their partner. This activity was really good to help with concentration and team work.It also was a way of putting on a comical performance. I felt like this activity got me ready to perform. We had to stay serious about our performance and carry on if we messed up and got slapped.
- we have to be serious about our performance otherwise the audience won't and it will also look messy
- being serious about something that is obviously stupid is funny in comedy too.
- If you feel stupid or silly, then you are doing it right!
- The slap was a good way of adding comedy too as the audiences loves to see the actors fail and get punished for it
This exercise can be used in our piece "love wins all" because we have to be serious on stage, keep up when we mess up and help out eachother.
We spent the rest of our double lesson adding music into our piece. At the end we needed a finishing number and we picked a song which was I'm a beliver by the monkeys. We had a dance to it and it is a great way of adding in different aspects instead of just acting which is what commedia is about! All kinds of performing!
Thursday 21st March-
For this hour we conitinued working and perfecting our piece.We had "eye of the tiger" for the fighting scene at the beginning between the two hipsters and mickey. We got our fighting moves in time to the music and the fighting was shorter and didn't drag on as much.In the cinema scene, i didn't realise but Axel played the Jaws theme tune when something bad was going to happen. We didn't expect it and it fit the performance SO WELL! I made us laugh so much so hopefully the audience will find it as funny as we did.
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