In this small scene from our performance we are establishing our characters and the beginning of their reactions to the storm. We learn that Kelly has a life threatening illness in which she has been asked to give a motivional speech at a conference on a boat in Brighton marina! We also learn that my character Summer loves to film everything and is passionate about becoming a film director. The audience will see Chrissys destructive behaviour and begin to understand the reasons why she is the way she is. Bella was absent from today's lesson so I was filling in for bella, we portray Chrissy and Hopes characters as sisters who are very different from each other and maybe do not understand each other...
At the end of this excerpt we show the beginning of what will be the storm, we all jolt at the same time to portray the boat stopping suddenly, we want to focus on the emotions of the characters rather than the storm itself, we want to show our characters reactions to the storm and how we will all bond with each other and pull together during the storm.
Process of making the decisions shown in the excerpt...
Ideas I have: my main idea was for my character to be filming everyone throughout so it gives a documentary feel to our performance and expresses my characters love for film and also show how the camera will create conflict and tension between the other characters.
Ideas my group has: My groups ideas were to start the piece with a small introduction to the characters and then portray the storm and the boat rocking to the audience. We want to create an emotional and strong feel to our piece with defined characters. My groups first main idea was to feature Kelly giving an motivional speech about her heart condition, this way the audience gets to know her character without her having to explain it to the characters, so the audience will feel more involved in a way. We interpreted the speech idea into having it on a boat, as our theme is La Mer, the boat will be a small boat with 1-2 rooms, like a small speed boat. We have all seen these types of boats at the Marina in Brighton, so this is our location. The audience will be able to relate to our performance as they will know where we are and have probably been there themselves.
How we developed these ideas:
What we tried out: As a group we tried out every idea we all had, most ideas we enjoyed and kept, the ideas we have improvised, structured and kept are; my character using her camera throughout the performance, having a modern documentary feel to our performance, having a speech about Kelly's heart problems, using Hope and Chrissy as sisters, creating conflict between my character and Bellas character, using the strong link we all have about losing our fathers, creating empathy between all the characters due to this link and having every single character really defined and expressive of their personalities- through their clothes, body language, voice and movement.
What we rejected: every idea the group had we all tried out, I wouldn't say we have rejected anyone's ideas-yet! We have used every idea and interpreted it into our piece together. An idea we had about Izzys character, Chrissy was to maintain her negative and bitchy persona throughout our piece, but as we've been developing ideas and improvising we have realised that Chissy acts the way she does due to the fact she lost her father at a young age and has never had any support from anybody, we want to create empathy between the characters and see a different side to Chrissy as she is just a lonely young girl. But we haven't rejected this idea we have just developed it into something deeper and more meaningful- and more natural!
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