29th January 2013

On Tuesday we explored our characters more. We all sat in a circle and we have to think about how our characters would sit on a chair and freeze in that position. Because my character is very confident I thought she would sit up straight. I also thought she would sit with her legs closed on the chair, this is very child like.I think my character is very child like in some respects, in the way she moves and stands. We then had to think about why we where in detention. My character was in detention, because she was late to school. Stereotypical bitches are often late, because they don't really care about being on time, because they have other things to do.

After that we looked at Physical Theatre. We used videos of Morecambe and Wise and Cirque du Soleil, as stimuli to give us inspiration on how to use physical theatre, but how to also stay in character. We also got inspiration from Frantic Assembly. Frantic Assembly create pieces of theatre using unique physical theatre  using music,movement, design and text. We watched this clip of a piece called Chair Duets. We used this as stimuli to create our opening scene.
We where then put into pairs and given 2 chairs and had to create a piece of physical theatre  I had to work with Caprice, she plays Sophie the film buff. Because I think everyone loves me I think we are friends, however she doesn't really like me.We then fit the piece to music.

Ours starts by me flipping my hair and Sophie looking at me weird, then I start trying to get her attention by poking her. I thought this fits in well because my character is very chatty and wanted to talk to her. However she just ignores me and shuffles away from me, I shuffles closer to her. This continues until she falls off the chair. She then stands up and moves to the other chair and moves the chair away from me. After waiting a sort while, I decided to try to get her attention again. I shuffles my chair up to hers and tap her on her shoulder as she looks over I grab her and pull he over my lap, and start playing with her hair. While I play with her hair I find a spilt end, I then push her and she rolls off my lap. She stands up then sits back down onto her chair.

I like our piece as we can clearly see the different characters. Caprice moves around more than me, this shows that I have more power over her as I am the one that makes her move around. My character is really bossy and wants everyone to do what she wants them to, this comes across in our piece.