We did a massive warm up with the another year group. We started off by doing the game samurai which is about concentration. The class splits into two groups and there is a leader for each group. The leader then does a movement which the other team has to reply with another movement that correlates. If the leader punches, the other team must cross their arms. If the leader kicks, the other team must jump. If the leader claps, the other team has to spin. If the leader moves their arm either way, the other team must move in the direction of his arm. If the leader puts his hand up, the other team must squat. We then did another warm up which was to move around the space until the teacher said something and then we did what they said. When the teacher said to clear the space, we had to run to the closest wall. If they said opposite, we would have to sprint to the other wall. If they said shell, we had to curl into a ball on the floor. If they said sprawl, we had to have 3 points of contact on the floor. If they said neutral, we had to stand in a neutral position and if they said favourite we had to point to a specific point in the room. Then the teacher played Bohemian Rhapsody and we had to sing throughout the activities. It warmed us all up and motivated us.
PLOT POINTS
Louis gave us some more plot points which were very useful and gave us a great place to start from when creating the other story lines. He created a story for Silvana, Seth, Hugo and my characters. Some of the points he thought of were that Hugo and I are in a relationship but Hugo spends all of our rent money on clothes etc. and then we get evicted so he tries to get us to live with his brother but my character and his brother don't get along at all so I say that I don't want to live with him. I then go and live with my sister and then when we're more stable I want to get another apartment with Hugo but he's more interested in the rich life with his brother. We then break up and then I realise how great life is being single and then Hugo wants me back. We then both realise that we're better off without each other.
IMPROVISATION
We tried to do an improvisation of the bar scene like our Party Quirks exercise in the improvisation unit. This was to show us going in a bar and meeting some of the people. We each had objectives for our characters. My objective was to somehow portray that I had slept with the barman who was Silvana's ex. I found it quite difficult to show it without straight up saying it. We then decided to dissect this scene into two different ones as there were too many conversations going on at once. One of the scenes was focused on my character and her sister Silvana and the bartender. Silvana and I already knew our objective but James didn't so we tried to show him through the scene. I started off quite slow but then figured out ways to portray it in a comedic way. The second scene was Tristan, Louis and Amelie. Tristan's objective was to get in between Louis and Amelie. Yet again it was quite slow to begin with but then they came up with some great ideas. We then improvised some more scenes related to Louis' ideas about Jane and David. We improvised the scene between Jane and David (played by Louis today because Hugo wasn't here) about when he tells her that they're getting evicted. After a couple of tries with different ideas, this turned out quite well. We then did the scene between Jane and Marie which went well so we decided it would be best to script it, and then the final discussion between David and Jeffery. We thought that it would be best to keep these scenes quite short as there is no need to waste time just to get an easy message across.
SCRIPT
Jane and Marie discussion
*Jane and Marie sitting down*
Jane - Ugh! David!
Marie - What's he done this time?
Jane - Blown all our money.
Marie - *Gasps* On what?
Jane - Clothes and shoes.
Marie - He's so stupid.
Jane - But guess what's even better?
Marie - What?
Jane - He couldn't pay our rent and now we're evicted.
Marie - I told you he was bad news. Why do you never listen to me? Didn't I tell you? Huh? I'm always right and you never listen.
*Silence*
Marie - So where are you planning on living then?
Jane - Yours?
WARM UP
For our afternoon warm up, we did something quite similar to this morning with the teacher giving us instructions but this time, when "favourite" was called, we had to point at James and he had to face the audience in neutral. Then pointing just went to looking at him. We did this with a few other people as well to see which looked most powerful. I think that it looked most powerful with James. We also did a game where we all held hands and one person stood in the middle of this circle and then one person on the outside had to try touch the person on the inside but the people holding hands had to try protect that person.
FREEZE FRAMES
We then did some freeze frames. The first one was of the bar scene which everyone was involved in. The other freeze frames didn't involve everyone so the other people just pointed at the scene. Then we made another set of freeze frames for the second plot line in which the first freeze frame was the same. We then tried to come up with a third plot line / freeze frames for the barman.
RUN THROUGH
We then did a run through which was difficult for my character as Hugo wasn't here so I did the movements at the start by myself. The rest of it went well and it was helpful to see where we were at.
IMPROVISATION
We did some improvisation for the scenes involving Frederick, Charles, Meredith and Harry. The rest of us did some script writing and compiled it all in one word document.
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