Week 5 - Road

The key things we've done this week is blocking scenes and going over lines whilst working on the accent at the same time. We worked on the pre-show which will be all the characters on stage in a freeze frame of something from one of our scenes. For example me and Jake are looking for my keys which happens in the scene with Doreen and Bald when she's lost her keys. Joe and Matt as the professor and Scullery are talking to the audience before the show starts and then they come around to us.

 

My blocking is that after the pre-show I exit stage right and then come on bottom of stage right with Kennedy  for our scene with Scullery. We walk from the bottom of stage right up to the top where he is and try to climb the wall and then we finally do. I then exit that scene stage left and then enter stage left again for my scene with the professor and exit stage left again. I then go round to stage right in order for me to be Mrs Bald behind the curtains and then enter stage right again for my next scene with Kennedy and Nikey. We exit stage left and then I enter stage left for my scene with Jake and then we both exit stage left together.

 

We went through mine and Joe's scene as we've not yet gone through it and it went okay. I got some feedback about rushing so I need to slow it down a bit and I need to add the accent in. I know all my lines and I tried to add the accent when learning them but I find it hard without someone saying it first so I can repeat. Luckily though we're now doing the accent in voice so that should help me and I've been asking Phoebe as she's really good at it and I might ask Matt as well. I have tried watching people online but then I'm not really sure if I'm saying it right as they can't exactly tell me.

I now know what my outfit will be for Doreen, I'm going to wear pink leggings with maybe a skirt over the top with a pink or blue top, a leather jacket, heels with my hair curly. I also might wear some hoop earings but I'm not sure yet.

I'm also trying to come up with a different tone of voice for Mrs Bald, I'm want to try and speak like Howards mum from The Big Bang Theory but I'm so bad at accents and changing my voice that it is a challenge. I will get the tone of voice in the end though because it will be really funny and she's quite like Howards mum in my opinion.