Silvana and I went through our piece again and decided to re-record. We have been trying so hard to get it done without stopping so we are trying it again. We had to do it quite a few times and then realised that in our last video we missed a few lines so we made sure we knew what we were doing before recording. We managed to get it done in the best way we've done it yet so I'm very happy.
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Today, Silvana and I attempted to re-record our East piece. We were so much more effective with our lines and movements this time than last time. Our filming went really well besides the fact that we had to film in the bathroom as we couldn't find any other room that was free to film in. Someone walked in mid-performance which was very frustrating so we might attempt to re-record it again.
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.
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.
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.
