Show

I thoroughly enjoyed the show We Will Rock You. I had a lot of support from fellow family, friends and students. The response from the audience was great and gave me huge inspiration and encouragement, for the rest of the show, and my future.

All the technical aspects towards the piece ran smoothly apart from the beginning of my two songs where they missed the Que, luckily me and Dylan took on a professional manor and started speaking slower giving them time to start our track so that the audience would have no suspicion of the fault.

I felt the relationship between myself and the GAGA kids lacked bitchiness and would require more sarcasm in a future show. Before i go onstage again i need to create my relationships with other characters so i can easily act on stage with out being uncertain on the specific movements i show onstage. Relationship is important as it can help with my own character and make the part come across to an audience more natural.

Under pressure needs more work on it. Me and Dylan need to feel more nervous towards each other and act is though we have just met for the first time, even though i have known Dylan for 2 years this is a skill that could help me develop my role in another show In the future. It requires more tension. At the beginning of this scene we are meant to have bandages wrapped round our head, to symbolise that we are in a hospital, having the bandages reinforced the idea. We were unable to use bandages because we didn't organise this in time, this taught me to be more organised and prepared with props as they can affect our performance for the better.

Throughout the play i have many punch lines. For the joke to be funny i need to say the punch line, pause, then deliver the next sentence, giving the audience time too respond.

My teacher suggested to make my hair bigger and crazier,  as this will help with my character and help me look like the part I'm playing.

I have a confidence issue with my solo songs this can easily be improved by rehearsal. For future reference i need to rehearse until I'm confident.
When we enter from stage left into the scene where the bohemians are brainwashed we need to act more excited and happy to see are friends because little do we know that they are brainwashed. For future i just need to be aware of the story and make sure i fully understand what is going on before and after. When we arrive it needs to feel as though there is a whole new chapter that we have just discovered.

context

Blocking Act 2 - Scene 10

Blocking Act 2 - Scene 6

This scene is very short bcause Rachel has cut hammer to fall. We enter from stage left. This scene is an argumentataive scene where all we do is bicker. I feel the scene really works as its so short. The scene is here to reinforce

Blocking Act 2 - scene 4

Wrecked Car

This scene Ben devised with our help and ideas. We start on the seats, where finished off from the last scene. There is alot of movement in this scene as this is the part we have an argument. we stand back to back whilst reading our dialogue, then Gaz starts walking off stage where i follow after him saying my lines whilst I'm half way off stage creating another interesting dynamic to the show.

It was hard to take direction not from a teacher and a pupil. But i was still able to bring my ideas to the scene where necessary.

Its hard being sarcastic, nice and Angy in one scene. This will take practise and it will mean going through the scene continuously until i am sure how to create diffent emotions.

Blocking Act 2 scene 2

The Wrecked car

In this scene we enter from the left hand side of the stage climbing through the bohemian area across the stage blocks. In this scene we both need to look and act curious as to how kashoggi found us at the heartbreak hotel. We then search at the back of eachothers heads trying to find how kashoggi located us. After finding the micro transievers we have to cut them out. For this next part we need to find something sharp that we could use for this next part, but it has to be safe for us to use on stage.
I decided we could get a piece of old broken mirror and cover it with fabric so we dont cut ourselves.

This scene is followed by 'Who wants to live forever'- Me and Dylan have practised this song adding in harmony and movement. We were inspired by Youtube clips online.

In this scene we have added extra lines to create humour and to get a respnse of an audience, we have shared our ideas with the other team, incase theydecide they want to add in the lines as well.

For this scene we are meant to be seated in a wrecked car. We arn't able to bring in a car as it wouldnt fit in the studio, so we have decided to use car seats that we can sit on to act this scene.

We still havent practiced with the car seats as last time they were being used they got taken down, hopefully in our next rehearsal we will be able to experiment with them.

Blocking Act 1 - Scene 10

This is the last scene in Act 1 and its the scene where we get introduced to the bohemians in the heartbreak hotel which is set in the corner on the high blocks.

When we arrive, we arnt welcome with open arms but whispers and mumbles. Me and gaz stand back, but once Megan shouts 'He calls his chick scaramouch' I retaliate. After realising we arn't killers, they decide to dress me in Bohemian clothing, at this point i laugh because I'm scared of looking stupid. After i exit off stage i have 2 minutes of dialogue to get changed into my bohemian gear. This isn't long to put on a corset, so i need to practise this with Megan who will be off stage helping me change.

I then renter in my new glam gear where everyone is overwhelmed. 

This rehearsal wasn't the most productive as most of the year 12s weren't in today and they are the extras in this. This made it hard for the dialogue to flow, next lesson it would be handy to run this scene again when the 12s are present so we could practise with a full rehearsal.