Rehearsals 1 week before show….
Today my group and I rehearsed during Brighton live productions in the drama studio, we all knew exactly what we had to work on from the feedback we received on Friday.
We have made huge progression today and have structured our opening scene and ending scene and we have made our piece a lot longer and more established.
At the beginning of our piece we have made the argument between Chrissy and Hope longer and more detailed, and have began with Kelly already in the middle of her speech, rather than her introducing people to the conference.
To make the opening scene more clear to the audience, Kelly ends the speech and after Summer asks her the first interview question, Kelly interrupts and informs the audience and Summer that she needs to see people out of the boat and back onto the marina as the speech has ended, this shows the audience that everybody else who were watching the speech have left and it is now only us four left on the boat. During this, my character Summer will be playing around with her camera and will over hear Chrissy and Hope arguing and will begin to film them secretly without them noticing, when Chrissy finally notices, Kelly comes back to Summer to finish the interview, so Chrissy and Hope do not get a chance to ask Summer why I was filming their argument. This has lengthened our first scene and it is definitely more clear and understandable for the audience, and it flows much better than it did before.
My group and I have also structured the "confessions" scene when we all sit down together in a circle, and have decided to have Chrissy start to become emotional about her father and this will break the ice for the characters to all start to open up about their situations, and then after we have all shared with each other our empathy and sorrows, Hope notices that our conversation is way too deep and emotional and we need to keep things light hearted so our characters will begin to share silly secrets and confessions with each other. We feel this way it adds a lot more empathy and comfort between all the characters, then we will end the conversation on a lighthearted note, rather than a sad note.
Towards the end of our performance, we have made a recording for Jim the sound technician to play at the end of our performance, after we have all left the stage in canon, my character will leave her camera in the centre of the stage, and Jim will play our recording of our characters screaming and shouting for help as they are drowning in the boat, as they are trapped in a room and the boat is beginning to sink and the water is rising. We felt it was much more effective to do it this way, rather than to be on stage acting as though we were drowning, it adds some suspense and mystery to our performance and will be more powerful as the stage will be near black out, the camera is the only object left on stage and the audience will begin to hear our screams and shouts from all around them.
The ending of our performance is very dramatic as we will all die, but we do not want to show this directly to the audience, we are all going to stand on chairs as the water is rising, banging on the ceiling shouting for help, and Chrissy has the last line, stating that she cannot swim, and then we will have water sound effects and during this we will one by one get down from our chairs and leave the stage, my character Summer is going to leave the stage last as I am going to place the video camera in the middle of the stage and exit.
OUTCOME OF TODAY:
Rehearsals today gave my group and I a lot of time to improve and structure our piece and I feel it was extremely beneficial to us and we have made massive improvements and our performance is coming together as we have all envisioned.
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