17th October

Performance Workshop

Today we worked out a running order for our performance then ran through it start to finish. This gave us a chance to work out any transitions between each scenes. After our loneliness scene we needed a smoother transaction as the first time we walked out everyone huddled together and it looked messy. I thought as we are already in a line it would look effect if we split in the middle and walked off holding hands in a line either side. This fits with the piece as it is like we are walking of united as friends. Also as the bullying on a mountain scene is next, it works well to start the music as we are walking off so that by the time our scene starts the music is playing in time with our scene.

We also developed our scene so after the 2 girls jump of the mountain, we turn around as if we are at a funeral. We revised feedback saying that looked powerful because it was as if the people that bullied them felt sorry for there actions. Also at the point the line in the song was 'I can't change' showing that the couple couldn't change who they were, this also makes the audience think about the 3 bullying characters could they change? 

We then devised an end scene. We developed the roller-coaster scene so that all of us made up the roller-coaster. After trying out a few different staging options we decided on a roller-coaster with 4 rows. Once the roller-coaster finished we stood up in each column and each said a different word to describe us. After trying this out we realised it didn't work as the words got lost and you couldn't hear them clearly. I had an idea of each row saying the same word that reflects all of the people in that row. Our row choose the word Explore, because everyone in our row wanted to explore another city in the UK or the world. 

We then rehearsed our scripted scenes, we couldn't rehearse ours because our team member was still off so we ran lines making sure we knew them. We then showed back 2 scene as our team member arrived, and received feedback. We were told that there was a lot of humour in both scene's and that the audience found them both very funny.