Tuesday 19th November

Film of today's rehearsal in front of peers and tutor using Arena audience....
http://b0471.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/20131119124308mp4.html

Today my group and I performed our piece in front of Andy and our class mates. Our piece is roughly 8-10 minutes long so far, which needs to be lengthened. We received good feedback from every body and we are very clear on what we need to improve on and what we are doing well.
The feedback our tutor gave us was mainly just to make our piece longer and to emphasise panic and emotions much more and just take our time to be in the zone and panic, just as we would if this were a real life situation.  
We also need to establish the beginning scene more and begin from when Kelly is already half way through her conference, instead of her beginning it from the start of our piece. The audience were slightly confused as to where everybody else disapeared to after the conference ended, this again is something we need to establish and make absolutely clear to the audience.

The idea we have is that after Kelly's speech, she is shaking peoples hands and thanking them for attending her speech, and then they would leave, and just as Kelly is about to leave I stop her to ask her questions, this then keeps Kelly on the boat and Chrissy and Hope are still arguing which distracts them from leaving the boat! As a group we need to make this more clear that everybody has left the boat except from our characters.
Our characters are all very well established and have their own individual traits which is something that stood out in our performance, our tutor feels the characters are really strong and we have a lot of good emotions and empathy for each other. I feel we could push ourselves a little bit more to have total empathy towards each other, but we are happy that everybody feels our characters are realistic and naturalistic. 
We have humour in our piece which the audience really enjoyed and I feel humour is a massive part of naturalism, as no body naturally is always really serious and stern.

My group and I are going to work on lengthening our piece and adding more structure to the ending of our piece. We have listened to the feedback and taken it into consideration and will definitely act upon the feedback we have recieved.
I feel our piece has great characters and the empathy and emotion the characters show towards each other is so clear and strong, we just need to work on our structuring and establishing the first scene in a more clear way to the audience.