My group and I are making vast progression every time we rehearse, today we have improvised the ending to our piece and are extremely happy with it. We are using movement in our ending scene and water sound effects, we want it to be relaxing and flowing- which contrasts dramatically with the reality of the ending, which is that we all drown as the storm floods the boat and brings in down into the deep sea. We want to leave a hint of mystery with the audience and let them ponder on what could p happened to us. We came up with a creative idea to pre record ourselves screaming and shouting during the flood and the storm, and to play this to the audience in our ending scene when we have all moved off stage. We feel this is very effective and will have a greater impact as the audience will see us using calm and relaxing movements as we come off stage and then will find out what really happened to us when we exit. My character will leave her camera centre stage and then the recording will be played, we discussed how we will record our voices and feel it will be more effective if we record ourselves and give it to the sound technician and he can play it as we exit the stage...rather than having it recorded on the camera as it will be too difficult for me to press play and find the recording whilst I am in character!
My group and I put together a script and have one each so we can study it together and in our own time, having a Script is really useful as it gives us structure and allows us to know the best way to say something instead of just changing the dialogue all the time, I feel as an actor I need some structure to my work as I feel more confident than just having to use improv in every single scene.
We also got together and discussed what "secrets" our characters can share with each other when we have our sit down heart to heart with each other about our similar family situations... We want to develop trust and empathy in each other in order to portay our emotions to the audience and to ourselves as actors.
We each went home and wrote down a list of secrets and confessions our characters could have, which relate to their lives and personalities. We want to create a scene were the characters link with each other and the audience is able to see the connection and empathy forming between all four characters.
We each went home and wrote down a list of secrets and confessions our characters could have, which relate to their lives and personalities. We want to create a scene were the characters link with each other and the audience is able to see the connection and empathy forming between all four characters.
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