During this week we were focusing on the feedback we got back from Kirsty and Deborah so we could have a finished piece by the end of the week. We needed to work on all the scenes we already had from the feedback and add one or two scenes to finish the play off. We started off by sorting out the boys fighting scene and finally taking out the back toll that Lewis and Luke do and changed it to something more suiting and that they could actually do. After we worked on Kennedy's monologue scene and made mine and Phoebe's actions more bigger and expressive. We worked at bit on the break up scene with me and Joe and the running away scene with us, The break up scene needs more emotion and Bobby needs to be more bitter and act as if she don't love him anymore and that she never did so he doesn't get even more hurt when she marry's brother Taylor. The run away scenes needed to go more swiftly.
We got some feedback from Deborah saying how she still doesn't know a lot about Joe's character who is Billy Joe. We started off by hot seating him as his character, we asked him a range of questions about he's feelings towards Bobby, what we did before he met her and his feelings towards her family. After this Deborah had another look and said that she's still learning nothing new about him. We then came up with another idea about asking him questions after he has commits suicide but we would put the scene during the play before he dies. These questions involved asking him why he gave up, how he felt about Bobby marrying brother Taylor and why he didn't stay and fight for her. Then we took the questions away and left it so we only had the answers to the questions so it leaves a bit of mystery about what's going on.
Another scene we came up with was a dinner scene which involved the mum, dad, both Bobbies and brother Taylor. We put this scene in the style of berkoff and made it show how the women are basically the men's slaves and how everyone thinks they're a happy family but they're not. We build "We're such a happy family" from being said in a happy way up to where it's said in a way to show how much we hate it and the fact that we're stuck init. None of the women are happy with their lives but the men are and we show this in the scene by the women acting as the table and the men putting their feet up on them.
My group is hopefully going to meet up next week and discuss what songs we're going to use and if we are in what scenes. We also need to sort out a few scene transitions so they flow into each other and then when we go back to college perform in to Kirsty and Deborah so we can get some feedback before our performance so if we need to make some changes we can.
You have documented your group and your own personal process of devising week by week to a good level of detail and you identify how the creative process and the way in which you personally moved forwards throughout the process. You discuss how you worked with the ideas via experimentation, how you moved forward with ideas and the group's rationale for rejecting other ideas (you should continue to do this in further blog entries).
ReplyDeleteYour blog would benefit from you further identifying how your response to the stimulus, abstract imagination and positive co-operation in your approach will impact upon the end performance.
You will also need to discuss the way in which your work is being influenced by further stimulus (i.e. wedding traditions, abuse, relationships, families, physical theatre, abstract movement, minimal text etc) and the practitioners (Berkoff) / devised performance work (DV8/Frantic etc) that you can reference as influential over your style.
Discuss the skills and techniques developed in your physical theatre sessions in your blog (think back to the original devising sessions with Deborah and physical theatre sessions with Kirsty).
The inclusion of written work regarding your research and development of your character, a character study for example, will be beneficial.
Reference quotes book(s) from the library or website (on the assignment brief)
which discuss performing a role/character study/devising theatre/or any of the practitioners that have been influential. You have included some written work including references in two blog entries, which is beneficial research.
Keep going!