26.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

 Today we looked back at our piece we attempted to finish over the weekend.  It looked way too choppy and we were not happy with how it turned out so we will be filming it again.  In the afternoon, we re-filmed 4.48 Psychosis as we thought the vibe wasn't correct in the last one.  To help change that, we filmed in the auditorium with louder music and different, eerie lighting.  This one went so much better for us and then we recorded our post-performance discussion.  

24.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

 Today, Silvana, Louis and Tristan came over to mine to finish our East performance.  Our aim for today was to completely finish learning our lines and movements for each line and then get it filmed.  Silvana was already very familiar with her lines whereas I wasn't as much.  She helped me learn all my lines and then together we created movements for specific lines and words.  After that, we went downstairs to film.  It didn't go massively to plan as we didn't manage to swiftly go through without any awkward silences or without forgetting our lines.  We thought we would be able to just edit these pauses out but it didn't turn out the way we wanted to.  

22.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

21.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

20.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

We began today's rehearsal with a quick reminder of our lines.  This went a lot better than yesterday but each of us have a few lines that we continuously get stuck on.  After that, we looked at the different music choices for the different parts of the piece.  We then went to a bigger space to do some more physical aspects.  Silvana mentioned that she wasn't too certain on a part of her chair duet with Tristan as she was planning on crossing one leg over the other but the bed is quite low so it's difficult and doesn't look very smooth.  We managed to figure out a different routine for that specific part of the chair duet and it looked a lot better.  After that, we discussed the issue with our Swindon 5.  We were previously walking over the bed and then stopping in the middle of the bed and saying our lines.  This was an issue as it slowed down our piece a lot and the bed is quite creaky and distracting.  We tried a few different ways but ended up coming to the conclusion that we would scrap the Swindon 5 and instead stand in 4 spots and create levels as we stand up when we say our line.  I think it looks a lot more put together and clean now.  Then we wanted to do an exaggerated run through, but Tristan wasn't in the mood and so it didn't really go to plan.  We also managed to completely forget all of our lines which was a disaster.  For the last two minutes we added a more concluded ending to the piece and decided that we were going to have our last run through at lunch time tomorrow.

19.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

 We had a small discussion period at the start of todays rehearsals on our goals for today and our goals for the week.  We then went to the common room to repeat what we did on Friday's rehearsal with the chair duets.  We've managed to fully secure what we wanted to do with this section of the piece.  For the start of our rehearsals after lunch, we went through our lines and learnt the order of them.  As 4.48 Psychosis is very abstract, the lines are quite difficult to learn and the order is even more difficult to remember.  We has to go through these for quite a long time to get everything engraved in our heads.  After we learnt the order of the lines, we continued with finishing the rest of the piece.  We then blocked where we would say our lines and the emotion each of us would say it in.  I am happy, Louis is angry, Silvana is sad and Tristan is emotionless.  We really looked into pacing and volume today, especially with the numbers section.  

18.10.2020 - Principles of Acting - Mrs Williams

 We were meant to have a rehearsal yesterday but Tristan wasn't feeling well so we changed it to today.  We wanted to focus on East today as our aim was to get it filmed and done with.  As we had planned to rehearse the day before but weren't able to, we didn't have as much time to rehearse today and didn't manage to fit what we wanted to get in and reach our target.  We have rescheduled the filming to next weekend and we will be a lot more prepared by then.