12/1/15 - Recap on Tales 1 & 2/ tales 6 & 7

Last Thursday's session was mainly focussing on recapping tales 1 and 2 and creating tales 6 and 7. I'm not in tale 2 so for me and the rest of the girls we focussed on tale 1.

Going back through the tale made us realise that there are things that we could do to improve our piece, like our characters. Everybody had interpreted their own character so everyone had different accents and personalities but it didn't quite match when we said it all together so we now speak in the same typical 'East-end' accent. When we ran through it like that it sounded smoother and more fluent. Everybody has already learnt their lines so that wasn't a problem. Some cues were a bit delayed but other than that it flowed well. The tempo, however, needed a bit of speeding up because our feedback from the director was that it was a bit jagged and slow. It needed to be as if we were saying gossip, and each line was overlapping each other in fast movements to make it more exciting. Lastly, some of us had to speak up because some lines couldn't be heard clearly.

Tale 6 rehearsal 

Tale 1 rehearsal 

We were split into two groups (I was tale 6) and we, as a group, had to independently come up with all the ideas and create the scene ourselves. My scene was the argument in the bar. We chose lots of creative elements which I think are going to work really well. The first creative
choice we made was for two people from the other group to hold up a sheet at the back so two people can go behind it and create a silhouette of the argument on the bar. We chose to do this because it's different and it will help the audience to focus on the actors instead of the argument taking place, it will also make the scene abstract and interesting to watch. The second creative choice we made was for everyone to do certain moves at the same time or say the same line at the same time, to give it a sense of routine and order. We thought this would work well because it would help represent that we are all actually one character.

We definitely haven't finished our piece (we are only about halfway) and the parts we have rehearsed need polishing off immensely but we are very happy with what we have done. We haven't particularly thought about what we want to do next with the dialogue, we've been working on things step by step.

- Matilda ^_^