Atching Tan
I think this radio play is really good because the emotions jump so much and it’s going to be a challenge to show that with just our voices along with showing the changes between different scenes. It’s going to be hard to show the emotion between characters because although voice is a key part in acting, I’m used to showing it by the way I use facial expressions. There’s also a lot of stage directions that we’ve got to show is happening through our voices like when Nelius tries to kiss Lovvie or later on when he grabs her harshly. That all needs to be shown by the way I say things like when it says he’s trying to kiss her and my line is “Your hands are dirty” I will need to say it in a playful kind of way and not like a “Ew your hands her dirty” kind of way. There are a few parts like this that I will need to make sure my tone of voice shows it.
I've done some research on the radio
play and found the one that was on BBC Radio 4. I thought this would help with
the accent but they didn't use accents, they just spoke a bit chavy. After
discussing with Sally and then with my group we decided this would be the way
we would speak.
Meaning of Romani words
Tan – place or tent
Hotchi witchi – sex
Ladging – embarrassing or shameful
Rakli – girl
Dordie – my god
When rehearsing the play in voice for
the first time so Karen could give us some feedback she said we need to bounce
off each other and that I need to say my words with one syllable to make it
flow more. Karen also said to pronounce the T’s to show her being a bit spiteful.
When hearing myself back I also think I need to show a change in scene by using
a different tone depending on who I’m with and the environment. More emotion in
the voice and react with lines from the stage directions.
To help me more with this I did go
through my script and write lots of notes to help me when rehearsing and
performing.
When rehearsing in class with Sally she
helped to make sure I had the right emotion during scenes as there is a lot of
different emotions in this play that jump around a lot. My character acts so differently
around each character in the play. I felt as if she acted herself around her
younger sister Norah but as she started to keep secrets from her she distanced
herself from her and everyone else close to her. Around Nelius she’s happy but
at times uncomfortable because I think she found it hard to know her true
feelings for him as she didn’t want the life he could only give her. She wanted
more, she knew there was more to life than just living in a caravan and that
was the life she really wanted. When she met John, at first she felt unsure of
him and then as they kept meeting up their relationship grew and there was
something there between them. He had shown her a life she actually wanted,
opened up doors to acting and made her feel “Worth something”. She wants the life he has shown her as she’s found
something she’s good at but her family would never allow it. When with her
parent’s she’s very on edge, I think it’s because they’re all about their way
of living and won’t do anything that’s “Georgiarified”
like water coming through the pipes.
When it came to thinking about Lovvie’s
character and how she is and the way she acts. I thought of her as strong but
shy at times, she just wants more and there’s nothing wrong with that. She’s
very emotional as she has to make a big decision which is whether she is going
to do something is good at and have the life she wants or go back to the life
she was born to have and live in a caravan. It’s all very hard for her because
she ruins everything with her family by doing something they disapprove of and
hiding it from them. Lovvie goes through a lot during the play so it’s
important for me to show that and due to the different scene changes I have to
change my voice tone depending on who the scene is with. She’s challenging but
as I go through the script over and over I begin to understand her more. She’s
a confused girl who wants more to her life but doesn’t want to upset her family
so realises it’s best to just with them.
During rehearsals I got a lot of
feedback to help me for when it came to the actually recording session. The
feedback I got was to feel what I was saying so then I went back over the
script and thought about every scene and what was happening and what she was
going through. I then wrote on the script how it makes her feel and what tone
to use when saying certain lines so when I go through it with everyone I know
and can say it in the right way. I was also told not to perform so I went back
to what Karen told us, which was pretend the microphone is who you’re speaking to
so you don’t need to project so much or act out, just treat it like you’re
talking to someone and not performing. A big one was emphasis on words so I did
go back and underline words to emphasis when reading out. Another big was to
use the ‘…’ because it just sounded like I was ending the sentence when that
means you’re searching for something to say.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/production/article/art20130702112135389
There are so many techniques used in
radio to create sound effects and to show someone walking away or walking
towards someone. In radio it’s hard to get the right sound like the sound of
people driving in a car as or a bird. When that don’t work you try something
that might sound like it. In the archers for example they open and close and
iron board to make the sound of a metal gate opening and closing. For a bird
flying past they use a feathered pillow and for a baby lamb being born it only
takes a wet towel, old audio and bowl of yogurt to create that sound affect.
We have a few sounds affects in our
play like the sound of a shower, people walking in the forest which needs to be
added in. We’re not actually making these sound affects ourselves but if we
were I’d use a sand shaker for the shower and just break some twigs for the forest.
Things like walking towards someone or walking away we can do by just simply walking
to and from the microphone.
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