Week 7 Greek (9th-13th)

so this week is the week before the show; after running Act 1 we lost all confidence within the show as we believed that it was not going to come together; one again people moaned within the group but i personally think that if they was to listen and not mess around and write notes in their script, it would of made it a lot faster, it did not help that we hadn't put Act 2 together as whole at the being of the week. 

on monday it was hard as we lost a rehearsal day due to that we had presentation day where over last two week we had been putting together presentations that we would show back to the class, shelby and I based are presentation the greek history, contemporary themes and how time has changed; it was hard for me as we only had hour together to put it all together and shelby forgot the parts of the script wi was meant to say, this was a lot harder for me as i struggle with reading but in life i have learnt that you should never let it hold you back; therefore i let it be my challenge everyday so have something to defeat in my day to day bases.

when we return on Wednesday we run act 1 in different style such as ;...

> Vampire 

>made in chelsea 

>children

these are only a few different ways that we acted it; this was to get the energy up when performing it, i found that i worked as people were having fun during the run especially when we run it as it moved a lot more smooth and faster, i found this was because people knew that was coming up next. 

Act 2 i found run a lot easier due to that people had learned their lines and that it was less chorus to out and to add in; when trying this with the different styles i found it lot more fun to work on my scene with shelby; i found a style that would work with Helen during my scene these were:..

>layer - during 'why did i go? why did i do it ?' i found it worked with the questions as it was like that I'm leading the audience towards me like i would with a jury i was using my enrichment experience to help play this.  

while running my scene Karan and I notice that i strangle with 'th and f' in the right place so instead of saying with i would say wif for example; this meant i would go home and work on this so that when I'm on stage next week it is improved, so that the audience can understand in what i am saying; i have done this by doing tongue twisted in my spear time and recorded my self and listen back to see in where the script it could improve still. i have took on board that it may take awhile so it will not be complete gone during this performance but will be a bit clearer as it will take time, but after it will hopeful make me a better actress for over coming this challenge. just means enough challenge to over come in life which i dont mind. 

Week 6 Greek (2nd-6th)

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This week was kind of the same as week 5 as we began by running Act one, it was hard as people had forgotten what we had done the week before as they never wrote any notes for it, so this began to annoy people within the group it was also annoying as people still had not learnt there lines therefore we could not improve any scene we had porously done.

The first scene we began to look at was the scene where the chorus come in from the side one by one; this scene was the main issue as people forgot how they were using their voice and what came next so after Karen left we had to work as team to get it done again and work on how we were all individual speaking the lines as I am saying my line ‘so the queen detested, by god and the dead’ as if I am telling a story to little children will being really sycatsic. After 10 minutes the scene final re-worked itself back to what we had. So that we had more of purpose when we walked the whole group walked around the room, I walked as if I was looking for something with a high status as I felt that’s what my chorus character would when playing with Electra or the audience mind; due to if someone looks like they can lead people will tend to full for insurance that they will found their way. 

During voice we worked through an animal workshop some theatre company’s use to this before every show to help build the actor into their character; when I did this I found two animals that I thought would represent Helen Tory the best, my first being a snow leopard and second being a Chameleons lizard.

Why? Let me just tell you…

 so in this picture i think that the snow leopard looks beautiful,stunning and graceful as the the unique patten, how blue the eyes are really helps with this; they stand out the most with the black and white patten. 

where in this picture; you see more of the evil side and not so gracefully i found this was usefully for my character as Helen is always there ready to fight back.

so the reason why i also decide to have a Chameleons lizard as my second choice of animal is because it can camouflage when its believes is in danger; i just felt that it would be a good animal for Helen because she is always looked upend for being beautiful, as she is Zeus daughter and therefore she can not always feel conferrable within her own skin.

here is the lizard camouflaging.

during movement we finally worked out what we during the sense when Connor is Oristieas; it was not hard as i to the group how i felt because everything was taking longer the it should of done, Kirsty also agreed with me; i felt that the group listened after and we managed to get it down within 30 minutes.

so within this scene we diced that we would be in a press comfortance and the main chorus would do the talking as we felt that it was fair, i then came up with the idea of sway when charlie acts that she swelling the baby, as we found that it add more of effect and making just more interesting to watch.

Week 5 Greek (25th-29th)

This was the first week we finally saw how act one was to look as a whole; during this week we didn’t only see this we finished scenes and improved our characters within the chorus so that we could have more of an understanding in how we would betray are own character so that they are all different, while being different they also need to be seen as one; so that the audience would get an understanding of the chorus, how we want to betray them as journalist. Over this week I have learnt that it is important that we want the audience to get the fact we are journalist as in the modern day society they tend to be everywhere to get information that will help have story to publish.

 

How we managed to move along the line to make our chorus members independent and different from everyone was doing a small workshop during the rehearsal process as we broke off around the room a was told two different pose; that represented a listening pose  (so that it made it look as if we were listening to Abbi telling us the information) , then we had to do a second pose that we could move into so for my one I lead forward and open my mouth to give a little facial expression so that it add more character and we were not all acting unitive.

 

The first scene we looked at was Abbi when the chorus is undercover and are pretending to be the ‘women that moan’ and ‘friend’ we found that we already had was good but that we need to stay force; it was hard for everyone to do this as after a while some people began to get bored of repeating the same scene over and over again, also it was hard as we had to look into Abbi and have a fake smile when she called us over with ‘friends’ this was to betray the fact that we aren’t really friends of hers , we were just there to get a story to twist.

 

Some of the fake smiles looked like this:

 

 

 

 

 

This is why we began to found it hard to laugh at each other.

 

 

I found that Wednesday and Thursday it was a lot hard for everyone to keep their mind within the room but on Wednesday we done some active ideas as we took some ideas form ‘The Box’ performance to create a chair routine so that it was put together a lot faster we decide that it would be better if we broke off into small group;  I was with Connor we started off we a different routine where we had different dynamics with the bodies but we found that it wouldn’t work, so we relooked over the 8 lines  in which we had this lead to less movement but was more affected as on the word ‘tangled’ Connor tangled my arm around me, we they had to work how we speak our lines we both agreed on high syacits voice; as we found it kept the audience interested when relaying back to other  class mates .

 

Week 4 Greek (18th-22nd)

This week i was only in for one day and an hour of the course week this was because i was taking part in enrichment that was to do with my other subject; during this week we were given the different grading criteria's; so we know to get the top mark which is possible for us; this started to get me think more in how i should play my character to make it believable to the audience, i feel that she will have small steeliness about her and how she moves , along with a insecure too as she feels that she has to live up to the high statement of beautiful all the time, as she is Zeus daughter.  

also watched some videos on the national theatre web-suite that explained how Greek theatre first came about and how it was first used, politics and to address an issue in the society. During the one hour that i was there on thursday we rehearsed my sense with electra 1 and worked on the blocking how i would use my dynamic in my voice to play on words and to imtimerdate electra, to wound her up and to make her annoyed. 

Week 3 Greek (11th-16th)

so within in this week we looked at the other main theme honour and the steps we would go to, to protect our own family name, so in my case i would lie to the law to protect my family name to some extend but i would not do it if they would to murder someone as i believe they should take what is given to them with there punishment. some people would say 'eye for an eye' the old statement. 

on wednesday we did some more force on the breathing with Alex, where we would lie on the floor to open the so it could full extend when breathing we then worked with in groups on different parts of the chorus and how we would perform it such as...

> we could sing it - even though i was not a part of this group when i watched it, it made me feel happy. - i think we could use this on a chorus speech to trick the audience in what they are meant  to be thinking. 

> whisper - i was not in this group either but when i watched this; it made have shivers and it made it more creepy 

> different range in voice( low/high) - i was in this group i found that you could play more on the words with is as you could start low then finish the word on high note, i found this add more dynamics on the voice.

during this week we was told draw some pictures on a paper drew:...

 

> Death of Agamemnon - as this is quite a horrific scene due that cytemnestra his wife and her new lover kills him in his own bath in his own home, also when the script says his body was twitching i get a image i my head that is not nice at all.  

> eye: i drew this as they are always getting watched not matter what they do.

> knife with blood- this was on of my image that i drew as it plays a big part in the play within all.

 

i though this week very helpful and gave me wider understanding of the play, how much of trudge it actually in. 

Week 2 GREEK

So week two has hit of Greek and time is passing by so fast again but this week we worked on the main themes of the play, the main one we looked Otto this week was forgiveness by looking it this I notice I don't forgive that easy we did this b discussing about the different explames what we sheared with our parteners.

On Wednesday we we did a workshop with Alex I found it really useful as we looked how we found interpret the chourse within different ways I found this really instating as we looked how adding movement that retaliated to the word 'see'. The whole group pretend that we where looking out for something by placing our hand on to our forward. We then looked at text within a different group so and moved round the different dynamics such a whisper - this would add the feeling of horror and creepy as if something bad was going to happen this is one of the tings we looked at after we add it all together.

In the group I came up with the actions to how we betrayed the words suck as 'kill her and be done with it' this was when the person behind pretend to sligh the person in front throat also that when we say our lines we should come out of the group this was so that we would stand out more when speaking our line.

Staging was a main topic we looked at as a hole and done the balancing a game which helped the understanding how some staging worked, this was called the plate, after the groups was given a chours speech and had to decide on how we wanted are staging , my group came up with the idea of musical chairs and the audience in cruicl round the out side we found this worked really well as it Perdue the atmosphere we where hoping to give which was the we were going into there personal space.

This is only a few things that was done on week two I hope to get the videos up soon after envying is fixed sorry please bear with me.

VIDEO coming soon so sorry about this issue.

Week 1 GREEK

  This week was the first week we finally started looking more into Greek, the first day we started looking more into the Greek which I found really instresting as we learnt more about how the lifestyle is and how they would use the theatre to get politics across.

Movement : we worked on the bath secen the chourse people split into two groups we we're give the words 'twitching' and 'overlap' so my idea that we then used when showed back to the rest of the group; was that we tents are muscle in our arms this was to give the effect that we were twitching, this is some times call as tutting in street dance , enough idea of mine was that we should overlap  repeat each other with the movement around with the then calliopes over one of each other.

For the rest of the week and Wednesday we looked more into detail with the characters we were given we did this by a simple group excise of deciding in how are they would stand so we picked a pose and  what martial they would be made out of so mine is Helen who is a Demi god so the group and I decid on marble.

Thursday we looked into two different sence one being where I worked with in the chorus and helped come up with ideas in when the chourse should leave, now in have time to think about he sence I feel that maybe some of the chourse should already be on stage around tyndareous on each side of the box so the main 3 , then on a word lay down out words  so it gives the effect the box has opened meaning that his mind as open to my feeling and anger.

We then looked at my sence this was a lot harder then what I would though it would be, as I had to be kinda of a sligh bitch and big head this is a character I have never played before with power with in my voice to make Electra fear me. This will be more explained in my video.

VIDEO : come soon in YouTube have technical promblems.

 This pose one the main image in Helen of her showing that she in important and vain and the hair touching shows that she is meant to be beautiful.

 This pose two this is meant to show the same but in a bigger actions so that it hits the back of the theatre, I felt that having the wide arms gave Helen power.

Reflect week on the Greek

So before we even started the Greeks we did a lot of research before we got give the parts we would to be playing so we looked into the history of Greek and the different types do Greek play such as comedy and tragedy the I learnt that this was used to have a look into Greek policies to see that if the things they where doing back in the BC was correct , this was also used to get the whole town to talk about the issue created in the play but not everyone had their the same view. As the chorus would be there changing their point of views.

Also that the chorus was there to stand for a person in look into a issue.

So over the last 6/7 weeks we have been working on how we could show the chorus on the 2nd week of BETC of drama the class split it to group and give a text were we relaid it back but as one my ideas for this was to have each person saying a line then we pick a word form the line what I/we wanted to sick out like sore thumb, but as we only had 20 , minutes and the rest of the group have never looked at Greek before I found my self getting annoyed and found this was issue as we where shouting over each other and we where not getting any where so in the end we decide that on words which as one we picked out we would look one way this idea was created by me and enough member in the group , this was one of the Greek workshop we did.

So even though I had never looked at the script it was time to go in to class and show what I could do we did this through a casting class so at fist I play eltrac for blood and light this was hard as it was the pint where she killed her father and she still wanted him to be there I came up with in a two that I should walk towards and drop on a word in a text 'father' .

Then I worked on the mother, I won't try with the name as I will probably get it work but it starts with a C , I played her with power in the voice but not to mush as she need fear as her sound is crazy and about to kill her, so even though I like this character it just didn't seem correct so I got a chance to Helen I then play with a a power in my voice but bow that this is my set character I feel that Helen should be up right .

This so only a few things that took part during the lead to Greek theatre.

Evaluation for devises

So over the last 4 weeks we have worked on a devise piece the type of style our devise piece we were aiming for was contemporary. So the devises show which we performed was called 'Then Real Christina' the name was group decision. The 4 weeks have not been easy is has been stressful and hard as for the first 2 weeks it was very hard to get the group to work together and instead of taking steps forward each day we was taking a step back. This was because the group was not forced enough during this time period, staying force was one of the group weakness. I found during long period the whole group had the moments so to keep us on track we had small brakes and worked in smaller groups to creat a sense then come together at the end. This helped us move forward.

So after we finally got we're we wanted to be the pace of the performance moved fast even though we had different dynamics during the piece this was enough weakness for us as we started to worry that we would not hit the time limit to even pass. We solved this by slowing down some of the different monologue and add more dialogue in. The three sense we decide to have dialogue in turntable out to be one of our strongest parts in the performance I found that I had an issue with what I was saying within my vocal delivery as my pronunciation on the word 'something' as I was saying as 'somethink'   So I kept putting a k on the end. I solved this by doing diction and articulation excises in my spare time at home some of these was just putting my fingers in between my mouth and saying different words and puns and even tongue twisters this helped me get the 'g'  at the end if the word.

The group also lacked in characteristic at the being of the full run through at the being of weeks 4 as we never really added in this was a weakness again during our rehearsal period so after looking at each scene we looked were we could add it in instead of playing it with no emotions in it. So we had different characters such as bully's in the circle sense and fear, proud, mad, worried, calm, sad and happy was played by different people in the 'train sense' we found this worked really well.

One of my personal weakness was in the comer sense I put together and was my idea this was struggle with me due to the fact I was playing Christian at this point and had to work with staying steal on one point to show that the other people on stage couldn't see me but the audience still could. Also I had issues with exits during one of the scene as I couldn't fine the counter to get off the box lucky dan was behind me and helped with this and we both made it back on in time for the flowing scene.

So overall it seems  that the group struggled a lot but the truth is that after all are weakness we came out on top as we managed to get our aim through to the audience are aim was to ' The audience to come out with them question their-self and who they really are, are we told to be who we are? Have other people made us what we are ? We also wanted the audience to feel;...
.emotions
.self discovery
.philosophical
   I know this due to the feed back we received from the audience as some even said "Left me wondering if we are free" so over all I am pleased with the outcome of the group as I feel that we archived energy out through the performance and dynamics in the show such as the mirror scene and the real Christian as this was the sense we had group movement with our heads, legs and the breathing.  We also had physical theatre during our show and example of this was the hospital dance/fight which I created.

week 1 additional

week 1 additional

- so after we discussed our different ideas about the picture we then worked on ideas in movement such as the dinner table scene which was my idea in this scene we use drama companies style of work such as  Frantic Assembly when i say style I mean taking out to the audience while there is still conversation within the characters, we also tried this scene "cut across" where the characters are all on stage but there to different environments and atmosphere happening on stage because it was more of a flash back style we tried to play it in. after trying this we found it didn't really work with what we wanted the audience to get from the show this came across as an issue as we lost a starting point.

However this didn't stop the group from trying other ideas to work around with such as objects - this is where someone try to escape but have to go under and trow the people blocking there way, this worked will with what we wanted show witch Christian being trapped even though this worked we put it to one side.

Week 4 (14th-20th)

This was the show week meant we only had two days to perfect everything and develop anything we could to improve the performance and we sure did work hard within this week.

So on the finally week and show week we tried different dynamics in sorted sence to see if they would work better slow or fast one of the main sence was the physical fight sence witch I choreography and we found out that as it was put in last minute Monday it worked better slow and had more of an effect when performed. 

We also had to work out what lights we would use and what colour we wanted for each sence, so for an intents sence we went for colors such as ....
.Green
.Blue
.Red
We found by having colours like this ut created more of an atmosphere on stage.

Watch the video for tge rest of my blog .....

Link : http://youtu.be/FHKE9DYSjek 

Week 3 (Oct 7th-13th)

This become are panic week we had one week and only 5 minutes to perform at this point , the group went through didn't emotions of stress but managed to stay together and get through we developed scene such as the "I'm the real christian", also tried different ideas and hit some problems such as we dropped Dan along the way.

To found how we manged to hit the mark of 11 minutes within 3 days on the 3rd week please click the link to watch the video where explain how we traveled the long journey to expand our play we came up with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzo8k_5dwmQ

Week 2 (30th-6th)

link to video blog:http: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGwLTkvmqo&feature=youtu.be

Aim - The audience to come out with them question their-self and who they really are, are we told to be who we are ? have other people made us what we are ? these are the type of questions i want the audience to walk away and ask them self. 

i want them to walk away feeling ....

• emotions 
• self discovery
• philosophical

Theme during the show ...

isolation-shown in a scene where Christian will be trapped and cant get out this will be shown by someone going trying to get through everyone while they all make different shapes out od there bodies to stop them.

Week 1 (sept 23rd-29th)

Week 1 (stimulus & group)

This is the first week that the class have seen the stimulus witch will help us to produce a show. I had my own responded to the stimulus it made me think of coldness, darkness theses words came from that her hair is getting blown by the wind there for a could Autumn day also that the colour of the clouds helped get this images across to me.

Also beyond a point as if she was so go over it something bad would happen so she would watch from the decent the two different shades in the grass really helped give the imprecation off.

Here is a picture what i have edited to help me to explain what i mean...

also made me think of words such as alone , despite and fear.


when we was put into the groups we put all our ideas down on to paper to help us to develop ideas the group came up with words such as ...

• .hopeless
• .afraid
• .lost
• .mental
• .fire
• .orphan
• .alone 
• .scared

this words help us come up with ideas such as a character going crazy witch was my idea but we need a reason why therefore Connors came up with an idea of a fair then i said maybe her family could of dead in the family therefore she becomes an orphan. so then we took this idea to our feet, by to start acting it we played that she was going mental by her hearing voice in her mind witch we play with by having me, Dan and Brad behind the stage saying how the flames where spreading up her body.we then had Imo sat on the chair then Connor and Alicia acting as the fire by pulling her back and touching her fire and Yaz was directing this to see if it worked or not witch really helped.

As a second idea i came with the idea of her looking back when her family was happy and she would be telling the story and using Frantic Assembly style the character talking to the audience to tell them how she wish it could all go back to normal. This we all though that yet again could be played as she was going mental.

so from a painted that was called Christian's world by Andrew Wyeth what was painted in 1948 the group and i have come along way of the line of the original story and have started going down the idea of mental if it will stay that why we have to wait and see but at the moment it  seems to be working well part from some things that we can a play around with as in idea one maybe have the voice actually in the background acting in pain and help pull her back and maybe with the second idea and rules in it such as when sorted words are mention or a movement is made there has to be a reaction.