12th December

We rehearsed the dances to start with to make sure that everyone was up to date with them. I think as a theatre company we work well together because a few people were stuck on some of the dances so I went over the moves with them to help them out. And as I was off on Friday, during the break we rehearsed the changes to scene 12. We changed the scene so that there was more movement and energy into it.

During the rehearsals I rehearsed with my backpack for the first time, however its hard to do the fast food dance with the backpack on so I think i'm going to take it off and put it inside the trolley.

We then rehearsed the dances adding in some new moves and finishing off the marry you dance.

5th December

Today we changed the blocking for scene 4. Rather than having the police walk on we pop up from the top of the decking. I pop up facing the wrong, this immediately shows the audience that I am a bit dopey and stupid. We then run around directly with high knees, the is making fun of how police usually walk as they walk very purposefully. When we are standing in a line we step forward as we say our  lines, also we added me walking around buttons then looking him up and down, when I walk around him I make an obvious concentration face, this shows to the audience that I have to think really carefully and hard just to work out that Buttons is a botherer.

27th November

Today we added on more moves to the Marry You dance. These moves are really up beat and energetic to keep the audience engaged as our target audience is small children and there attention span is short. We also added in claps which the audience can join in with, this also keep the children engaged.

26th November

Today be blocked scene 11, as I don't have any lines my job is to set the scene and atmosphere of being in a ball. I do this by dancing in character, my move movement are very simple and floaty. I took inspiration from how a child dances because they just bounce around on stage moving there arms. I received feedback saying that my movements were effective and always full of energy.

We also changed when the prince comes down, me and my partner need to be on the other side of the stage to dance so once the prince start talking we cross over behind him. I thought it would be effective as my character is always looking around to have her walk across as the is completely fascinated by the prince and the palace. I received feedback saying that it worked well and that it was very comical.

21st November

In partners we had to create a short slap stick routine, this gave us idea for things we could add into our show as children find slap stick comedy very humerus. Also it give the scenes more movement. I think maybe the police officers could do more slap stick comedy because we are stupid it might work if we collectively fall over or accidentally bump into each other.

We then added on more to the Marry You dance, we in a few claps this getting to audience joining in and when the audience claps along it boosts the overall atmosphere.

20th November

Today we rehearsed the ball scene, and changed a few of the counts and added on a few moves sticking to the regal ballroom theme.

We then sang through our end song, and gave everyone specific lines for them to sing. The policeman have been given the line 'Working hard to get my fill, Everybody wants a thrill' this works with our characters as we are working hard at our jobs even though we aren't very good at them.  

19th November

We started the lesson by talking about what skills we will need for performing and rehearsing for a pantomime and why these are important.

I said timing was important because when delivering a joke its important that the timing of it is right or you could lose the joke.
We them self evaluated ourself on how focused we are during rehearsals and performing. I gave myself an 8 because when performing I am very focused however during rehearsals I could improve. We also evaluated ourselves on enunciation I gave myself a 5 I think I need to improve when I say the line about Botherer and Borrower.

We then talked about arresting an audience member, rather than taking them of stage. I had the idea of leaving them on stage and miming that we are taking down there details, while Zipper runs on stage and chases Buttons off. Then we realise we have the wrong person, show them back to there seat and run of stage. This made the exists cleaner as we were not all running of at the same time.