In today's class my group and I discussed and structured our scene, we have all had our own input to our performance and we all have listened to each others ideas and visions for the piece. We made a brainstorm together for further ideas and emotions our characters are going to be feeling during the performance. We have all established that our characters all have their own individual way of coping under pressure. My character, Summer does not cope very well under pressure, but if you do not know her personally she will come across as calm and cool about every situation, when inside she is screaming and stressed out. We all want to explore how far we can push our characters an who will crack under pressure and who be the enabler, who will be the maternal character who looks after everyone? We feel Sophie's character Kelly will cope the best during the events that happen in our piece as she has a life threatening illness which is never going to change, this makes her an extremely strong and positive person, she seems as though she copes very well under pressure and everyday is a struggle for her but she always has a smile on her face and looks at the positives- this characteristic will work really well in our piece as she will be strong for everybody else and not just herself.
We were also discussing props we will use, we want to keep it as minimal as possible as our performance is solely based on the characters and their emotions and reactions rather than the set and props. My character loves to film everything and has a deep passion to become a film director, therefore the prop I will be using is a video recorder, to give our performance a documentary feel to it which is quite an original and interesting idea. We also might use a cup of water as izzys character, Chrissy arrives on the boat drunk as she is a mess and loves to go out and get drunk and do stupid things because she is trying to put a front on to cover up her true self, which is a scared and vulnerable young girl who has lost her father... We feel props aren't very important but the camera is a key prop for our performance as it symbolises my characters career driven spirit and gives that performance within a performance feel to our piece.
Improvising!
My group and I improvised parts of our scene today for 5-10 minutes, we have really established our characters and how different yet similar they are to one another. We all communicate very well which is an important aspect to performing and we all improvise well together and are always coming up with ways to improve and create our piece.
From improvising today I learnt that my character has the ability to irritate one of the other characters in my piece by using the camera most of the time, this will have a great dramatic effect as the camera is something my character has passion for and loves to create motion picture and the other character finds it irritating and does not understand the passion my character feels. Bellas character Hope finds it un necessary for Summer to be filming everything all the time and feels she is using them for her university project, this is not true as my character does not use people to her advantage but this will be a great contrast an will create conflict between our characters.
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