Rehearsals…
In today's rehearsal my group and I worked with Jim to record our ending voice over, which will begin after we have all left the stage one by one.
Todays rehearsal allowed us to achieve a lot of work and make huge improvements to our piece, particularly the "Confessions" scene, in which we were given feedback from Andy, the feedback were guidelines to suggest we should make the scene longer and go into detail more about our characters "father" situation which links us all very strongly together.
This feedback has inspired us to create more emotions and empathy between each other and the scene looks so much better after this! We are using levels a lot more and instead of all sitting down during confessions, we all walk around the stage and use different parts of the stage, for example; when I ask Chrissy and Hope why they were arguing, they both walk off in different directions to face the audience, as we are performing to an arena audience, it does not matter where we stand on stage as everyone will always be able to see us and we will not mask each other at any point.
Hope sits down on a block we are using in our performance when she is opening up about her and her sisters father situation, and my character Summer will sit next to her listening to her talk about it, and then Summer will walk over to Chrissy to comfort her. This works so much better than all sitting down during this scene, as the dialogue of this scene is so important and emotional, sitting down does not link at all, as when sitting down the audience could become quite bored as we are not doing anything with our body language, using the stage more and levels definitely makes our scene 100x better than it was when we sat down, I also feel as an actor that using my body language and movement more during the scene, gives me more energy and ability to portray my acting ability in such a better way than to just sit down through such an important and moving scene.
We also finished working on our ending scene and it looks great, and we received feedback from our peers who also said the ending looks really interesting and almost rather eery!
We all stand on the blocks we will have on stage and after Chrissy delivers the last line of our performance " HOPE, HELP ME, THE WATERS TOO DEEP, I CANT SWIM!" We all start to sway from the right and round in small circles, like we were taught in Movement to feel as though we are swaying on a ship ever so slightly, it looks really effective and intense and draws the audience in, it almost feels as if our characters are in a trance and the sea has claimed them and they are completely powerless to the feeling.
Chrissy and Kelly are on the front blocks and my character and Hope are on the two back blocks (due to height!) and Chrissy is the first character to get down from her block, and almost float off stage, then Kelly, then Hope, and lastly my character- Summer gets off her block and places her camera in the middle of the stage and exits.
We have discussed as a group that we would like the lighting to begin to slowly fade, and have the audiences attention on the camera in the middle of the stage, and then the sound recording we have made together will begin to play, we want the audience to imagine that it is a playback from Summers camera and that no one really knows what happened to us, if we died or if the water claimed us and we were lost at sea?…
Our piece is pretty much finished, the plot lines are finished, the character establishment has been completed..all we need to do is keep running through our performance, focus our attention on the confessions scene and just perfect the last little details. Todays rehearsal has been the starting point of our group being almost finished and our performance almost perfected!
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