Creating an ending to our letters piece- Daniel practical

17/10/14

During this lesson we decided to create an ending section for the two scenes in the letter performance. We decided as an easy transition from one scene to another we would do a dimming of the lights and a spotlight on the scenes that were performing.

After this we needed to go straight into the funeral scene and decided that we would mime cups and saucers as that is what we thought of when it came to funerals.

During the funeral scene we also decided that we would make three contact points with three different partners. One of these contact points that I have is with Chloe and as she is playing the character of a ghost I really show my facial expressions of being shocked and scared at the same time.

14/11/14

During this lesson we decided to go over 'Youth' and it was in this lesson that we decided that Chloe would not actually sing the song but she would just mime the song instead as the backing track was not that good and it wouldn't have made the scene that great.

After we did this we went over the cheerleading part in everything is awesome and made sure that we all knew what we were doing when it came to the cheerleader jumps and Ami doing her leaps and flips.

13/11/14

During today's practical lesson, Daniel wanted us to go over every single scene that we had created for our final performance.
This lesson consisted of us going over the beginning scene, FEAR, the letter scene, the funeral scene, the grotesque dance, bohemian rhapsody, youth, everything is awesome, brave heart, the chair scene and the final scene.
Whilst rehearsing every scene we tried to fix all the things that could be done better and change bits when needed.

7/11/14

During today's practical we decided to do a dance to a song called 'Youth' by the Daughters. The song is quite emotional and is a really beautiful song and I think it worked really well with the piece that we created.

For this scene we decided to have Chloe be the main focus of the scene by having her walk from the stairs to the centre at the back of the stage singing the song.

The reason we chose Chloe to do this was because she was the character in the performance that had passed away and we all thought it would be a very emotional and good scene if we did this.

As well as deciding on what Chloe was going to be doing we also decided on what we were going to be doing. Unfortunately I was off for this lesson so I was unable to be a part of the process of creating the rest of our parts in the scene but from watching the video on Facebook I can see what the class did.

As Meaghan, Tia and Ami are more of the advanced dancers in the class they had decided that they would be the ones to do a really overwhelming and beautiful dance whilst myself, Eleni and Katie would stand at the back and do slow movements and eventually going into the same dance as everyone else near the end just before the ending of the song.

As Hannah and Ellie were left out and didn't have a part in it as of yet the class decided to add them into it doing slow movements and then when the slow part of the song started they done their own little part which was very audience captivating as it was only them two on stage with the music and the audience would then be able to put their full focus onto the two of them.

grotowski

In this lesson we based our piece around the works of Jerzy Grotowski. The reason that we decided to do this was because we were studying Grotowski for our practitioner portfolio and we thought from researching his work his work looked very interesting and had a lot more of a violent and angry approach to it than the other practitioners.

 

In this routine, Tish decided to interpret his angry approach to it by using banging movements with our feet and also used the more insect like approach that he uses in his pieces by doing a somewhat insect crawl. 

 

 

 

Above is a video via our Facebook group which shows exactly what we did in the lesson.

Image of a girl

Below is the video from our groups Facebook which shows what went on during our practical lesson whilst studying 'The image of a girl':
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1486874074922469&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theatre

For this practical lesson Daniel gave us the stimulus of pictures and gave us the image of the girl. For this practical Daniel had us get into groups and create movements that interlinked into each other.
My group consisted of me and Katie and we done a more angry approach than everyone else because from this picture we felt like the girl looked slightly distressed so we decided to base our piece around that.

09/10/14- deciding on final piece (stimulus- letters)

During this lesson I was absent from college so was unable to take part in the lesson but the rest of the class have informed me that what they did during this lesson was they bullet pointed and created a spider diagram in order to think of ideas of what our class could do for our final piece.
Above you can see the pictures that I was able to access from our drama group's Facebook in which the class have came up with ideas of what would be good to do for our final piece.