It is set on a tube train that gets caught up in the bombings, and is about how people cope with the situation, and how their past influences them in the present. First of all we took some time to chat about the scene and listen to everyones ideas, this was easier said than done as everyone wanted a turn to speak but we were all talking over each other! in the end though everyone had their turn and we started to work as a team quite well. There were some really good ideas, shroom came up with the idea that there could be a count down which can be heard in the background that the characters are oblivious to but the audience can hear: this makes it more tense for the audience as they are wondering what its leading towards. I thought that the light could go out during the crash and come back on when everyone was on the ground to give the audience a shock, but then Victoria made a really good point and said that the way we all fall is really effective as we do it at the same time, so we changed it so the light would go off after we fall for a few seconds, and this would give a better effect. We started rehearsing the scene a few times, but it just wasn't really working, nobody was in the moment when the crash happened and it just didnt seem real and fell flat, I think we were all too embarrassed to simply go for it and act completely in character. We stopped to have another chat about how to improve it and decided to add some unaturalistic aspects, we decided to have character flashbacks and have Matthew as a symbol of fate/death or whatever the audience percieve him to be, we do this by adding him in the background of all the flashbacks, and making him present on the platform and on the tube but nobody really notices him, this makes it more interesting and forces the audience to think about what it could mean... for example has fate been following them?, could it have been anybody who ended up on the train?, was he a symbol of death?. We then went through it again and it worked much better but it still falls flat after the crash as I dont think anybody is in the moment still. So for next time we have been asked to either come up with a flashback or a character monologue which will hopefully make us think about our characters and how they would feel which will make the scene more interesting and as we will understand more about our characters it should be easier to act them spontaniously and believably . I have been asked to do a monologue and I have come up with the idea that she will be confused, therefore she keeps on changing the subject without thinking, so its a muddle of her fears, thoughts and memorys.
Saturday, 20 October 2012
devised piece - 7/7 london disaster
During our wednesday session we worked on our group devised piece which after some stimulus we decided to base on the 7/7 disaster.
It is set on a tube train that gets caught up in the bombings, and is about how people cope with the situation, and how their past influences them in the present. First of all we took some time to chat about the scene and listen to everyones ideas, this was easier said than done as everyone wanted a turn to speak but we were all talking over each other! in the end though everyone had their turn and we started to work as a team quite well. There were some really good ideas, shroom came up with the idea that there could be a count down which can be heard in the background that the characters are oblivious to but the audience can hear: this makes it more tense for the audience as they are wondering what its leading towards. I thought that the light could go out during the crash and come back on when everyone was on the ground to give the audience a shock, but then Victoria made a really good point and said that the way we all fall is really effective as we do it at the same time, so we changed it so the light would go off after we fall for a few seconds, and this would give a better effect. We started rehearsing the scene a few times, but it just wasn't really working, nobody was in the moment when the crash happened and it just didnt seem real and fell flat, I think we were all too embarrassed to simply go for it and act completely in character. We stopped to have another chat about how to improve it and decided to add some unaturalistic aspects, we decided to have character flashbacks and have Matthew as a symbol of fate/death or whatever the audience percieve him to be, we do this by adding him in the background of all the flashbacks, and making him present on the platform and on the tube but nobody really notices him, this makes it more interesting and forces the audience to think about what it could mean... for example has fate been following them?, could it have been anybody who ended up on the train?, was he a symbol of death?. We then went through it again and it worked much better but it still falls flat after the crash as I dont think anybody is in the moment still. So for next time we have been asked to either come up with a flashback or a character monologue which will hopefully make us think about our characters and how they would feel which will make the scene more interesting and as we will understand more about our characters it should be easier to act them spontaniously and believably . I have been asked to do a monologue and I have come up with the idea that she will be confused, therefore she keeps on changing the subject without thinking, so its a muddle of her fears, thoughts and memorys.
This is the video we watched for stimulus, its really emotional and made you think about just how terrible it was and how scared the people involved would be feeling
It is set on a tube train that gets caught up in the bombings, and is about how people cope with the situation, and how their past influences them in the present. First of all we took some time to chat about the scene and listen to everyones ideas, this was easier said than done as everyone wanted a turn to speak but we were all talking over each other! in the end though everyone had their turn and we started to work as a team quite well. There were some really good ideas, shroom came up with the idea that there could be a count down which can be heard in the background that the characters are oblivious to but the audience can hear: this makes it more tense for the audience as they are wondering what its leading towards. I thought that the light could go out during the crash and come back on when everyone was on the ground to give the audience a shock, but then Victoria made a really good point and said that the way we all fall is really effective as we do it at the same time, so we changed it so the light would go off after we fall for a few seconds, and this would give a better effect. We started rehearsing the scene a few times, but it just wasn't really working, nobody was in the moment when the crash happened and it just didnt seem real and fell flat, I think we were all too embarrassed to simply go for it and act completely in character. We stopped to have another chat about how to improve it and decided to add some unaturalistic aspects, we decided to have character flashbacks and have Matthew as a symbol of fate/death or whatever the audience percieve him to be, we do this by adding him in the background of all the flashbacks, and making him present on the platform and on the tube but nobody really notices him, this makes it more interesting and forces the audience to think about what it could mean... for example has fate been following them?, could it have been anybody who ended up on the train?, was he a symbol of death?. We then went through it again and it worked much better but it still falls flat after the crash as I dont think anybody is in the moment still. So for next time we have been asked to either come up with a flashback or a character monologue which will hopefully make us think about our characters and how they would feel which will make the scene more interesting and as we will understand more about our characters it should be easier to act them spontaniously and believably . I have been asked to do a monologue and I have come up with the idea that she will be confused, therefore she keeps on changing the subject without thinking, so its a muddle of her fears, thoughts and memorys.
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