Lesson 8

We had to fit in as many run througs in this time and finish off sorting little details, e.g i had to arrange with Beth getting myself a policeman's hat from the costume coupboard. This hat was later not used as it was decided that it was abit 'corney'. The music was sorted by this lesson and at the end we showed rachel a run through. She offerd constructive criticism to help the girls along with ther mono logues and with how i act and help guide the audience around, This would be helpfull when it came to the shows as i feel the audience might not know what to do and where to go if i did not use the techniques shown by rachel.

Lesson 7

Lesson 7 we showed Beth the layout of how the play is set out and she arranged spot lights and put up red wide lighting to set a spooky atmosphere, while Beth was doing this we were also looking for spooky music to go along with the play, we had arranged a friend to do the lighting for us and sorted out how the lighting order would go. By now we had the Lighting sorted, the Costume sorted, all the Script sorted and now we just need the music on a disc, and to do our run throughs to polish the show off.
We all had to learn our lines and set the task of doing  run through without script in the next rehersal which was at lunch time.
In the time inbetween lessons we had stayed in almost every lunch, after school on a couple of days and practising lines at home.

Lesson 6

Before lesson 6 Theo, Molly and Lou had arranged meetings with Beth for costume and by the time we got into lesson 6 we were immediatly thrown these brilliant fitting costumes and props. All of the costumes were brilliant, but when it came to the girls trying the dresses on it seemed that they were all to busty for the dresses, so Theo and Mol went away this lesson and arranged another meeting with Beth.
While Theo and Molly were away we sat and thought up of an ending pro logue of how i can conclude the play, We knew it would have to be educational to refresh there minds of the  facts the girls had in thier mono logues.
As the group were thinking up of facts to put in it, miss said it can't be too long so therefore quite a few of the facts were shortend or wern't mentioned so with all the information we needed i thought up of putting it into a rhyme, the rhym fitted brilliantly and left the audience with a spooky thought on thier minds.

Lesson 5

In lesson 5 i had gone away in my own time and thought up of a script to introduce the play, and to end the play. I shared this with the group when we were sharing our progress to each other on how we were getting on, The group liked my introduction and said it was a spooky yet involving pro logue.
The rest of the group had got on well and had there mono logues sorted out, thier mono logues were very factual which was fitting to our piece being a educational performance.
We then sat around and discussed how we would be able to link up all of these mono logues and get round to the final pro logue to close the play.
I thought of introducing catchy little rhymes to the play to let the audience know that they would have to follow me, these were very poopular with the group.
Our next thoughts were on lighting and costume.

Lesson 4

While being assigned the role of the tour guide i did some research on tour guides from around the tower of londen and other spooky tours. I had to devise my own script, i had no facts to go on, it was all made up. I had to think of a spooky introduction to the play and then introduce the 1st victim. To help me think up of what kind of things my charicter would be saying i did a role on the wall, inside feelings and how i would have to seem on the outside. This was useful as when you are making a charicter from scratch you will have to have a background, and a target to get across. So i decided that my charicter was meant to be a resemblance of Mr Lusc and my target was to make the audience feel spooked by me but at the same time, they were meant to be trusting me so i had to devise a cunning script, and use lines in the correct manour.

Stanislavsky Methods of acting

Stanislavsky

Research on Methods of acting

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud

researching tour guides

Lesson 3

This lesson we decided on doing a play about the white chapple murders/jack the ripper, Jack the ripper is a good story line to focus on, we spent this lesson doing our research and thinking out charicters, the story on jack the ripper was perfect, it included 5 murders 1 jack the ripper and a tour guide. We had to work around only having 6 people but it was easily done. once assigned our charicters we ha to think up of a costume to start to collect. This is where we assigned each other roles, emma purdy and theo on research for each charicters and story line and the rest of us doing costume and thinking up of mediums. We did this for about half an hour, and having the research sussed out in time we could begin to put charicters into place and start to think up of arranging lighting meetings and how we were setting the stage out according to this.
We each set ourselfs homework of researching your own role in depth and thnking uo of your mono logue.
I was the tour guide, the main part of guiding the audience around the story murder by murder.

Lesson 2

This lesson we were informed that young children may be watching so therefor it didn't seem appropriate to do a drama about the murders of young children. So we went back to research on differen murders etc. We looked at several different horror story's that would be good for a drama, we made a final 3 from a book named murders in britain and we looked into each one. We all had a favrouite but we had to see how it could be done. By this time we had ruled out doing our drama on the morse murders. We all still realy liked the idea of promanad staging so we decided to keep that element in it. Then we got told that only two rooms were available but instead of ruling it out in our own time we stayed in to figure out a way of working around it.
We had to think it over untill the next lesson.

lesson 1

Lesson one we were deciding on our project that we were going to follow through, we new that our topic had to be educational but we didn't want to make it all corny so we decided on doing a scary piece.
Our initial idea was the morse murders, and doing it like a cludo game, we would have 1 person on each podium and in different rooms. By leading the audience around from stag to stage this is called promanad staging. When the year started and we found out the exact numbers of our class so therefor th cludo idea just became harder by trying to figure out who would be who and how we would get the audience to move around.
we had to solve ths problem by the next lesson.

starting up

I am starting my diary blog for my B tec drama course.