Today we were all at Pelham tower rehearsing our pieces, particularly focusing on our movement pieces and the sound and lighting.
We learned how to use the space provided and know just how close the audience are going to be to us when we are performing!
My group and I made a few changes within the sound and lighting effects used in our piece, instead of having water sound effects after we all realise the water is rising in the boat, we are just goin to keep the storm and rain sound effects throughout the whole piece, and just having it becoming louder as the panic rises between our characters.
In our ending scene we originally wanted blue lighting for when the water was rising, just before we all drown, but now we are keeping the blue lighting throughout our piece, as it signifies a dark and cold mood, which is what we are aiming towards and the lighting creates a more dramatic effect rather than having white lights up until the water scene.
The last technical change we all decided would look best is to have the lights black out when we rock back and forth on the stage when the boat starts to rock , as opposed to having flickering lights. It looks better and much more effective and less literal, as we want the audience to believe that the lights on the boat have turned off as the storm has hit the boat SO hard!
We made a lot of decisions today for our sound and lighting and I feel it looks much more dramatic and almost quite eerie, particularly the ending scene of our piece when we are all standing on black blocks swaying in a circle, the lighting is a green colour, which signifies we are under the water, drowning and also the floorboards creak naturally in Pelham theatre which adds to the distress and horror of our ending scene....
We perfected our movement emsemble to the best of our ability today and it flows so well and looks really naturalistic and we are always in contact with each other at all times, instead of holding hands like we did when we first put it together, we now lean on each other and are always physically joined in some way. We emphasise sea movements in our piece which contrasts very well with the whole theme of our performance, and we also portay our characters, not too much but the characteristics are there. For example, at the beginning and ending of our piece we are all in a line and lean on each other to the right and left four times and then slowly let our heads drop to the floor and hang lifeless in between our legs. To me, this symbolises our characters after they have all found empathy and common ground with each other, and genuinely begin to bond and have feelings for each other so they lean on each other and support one another. But this bond is short lived as all the characters drown together, and slowly dropping our heads to the floor symbolises death and hopelessness for all the characters. They support each other and bond, and then they drown and die together. This I feel is shown in our movement piece and establishes our relationships and the fatal ending to our piece.
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