18th March 2014

The wolves beginning scene

Today we have now got music for the ''wolves dance'' scene and has now been sorted and rehearsed a lot during our first lesson and now we have the main six wolves doing the main dance as well as everyone is doing the beginning walk at the start of the play.

the wolves who are in this scene are:

Meg

Jay            Jess

Lofty

Chloe        Amy

This is the order we are in after we have done the run off at the start as a pack so as we do the wolves dance so the audience will be watching us as the other cast who start the first scene get ready by getting their clothes from the chests which are on set. After a couple of rehearsals we had been asked to go all full out so we could see if we needed to change anything to make it look better and we had followed what was said.

The focus was really strong at the start which will start silent as we come on the stage one by one as soon as Beth (starting point) goes on stage, the stage will also have a small dim lighting on the stage which will give us a better feeling to give the audience a dark view on the wolves.

We do still need a few more rehearsals to work on due to a few people who are not pushing through the pack at the start because they are just walking on the sides to get to their place for the next part, this will be obvious to the crowd because they will stand out and it will break the atmosphere.

We then started working through the lines as normal but this time we had used the cards with the projector which will make the picture look 3D in some way which gives the performance a bigger strategic way to draw the audiences attention, the scene which he had started practising was the scene we're James (Adam) Bonnie (Danielle) and Sylvia (Sian) try to send off a letter to the Doctor for help because of what has been happening in the Willoughby residence.

11th-13th of March

Missing the rehearsals 

11th-13th of March

Due to an illness which I had gotten last week i was off three days of our rehearsal time which i regret because i feel like I have let my class down since i fell ill, but now that i have recovered I am willing to find out everything which had gone on and make myself useful so I can get back up to speed and also help out with ideas, setting props etc.

Its good to be back though i am still weak from the illness but over this weekend hopefully i should be back to good strength and ready to get the show going with my lines, I have learnt so much of my lines due to not having a script but i have gotten a Kindle which i will buy the script and put it on my kindle and get through the lines as quick as possible to get everything going more smoothly.

05/03/14 

my idea for the wolves of Willoughby Chase

Today we was talking about how we was going to block the show in a different way then we normally do at the performance date. The ideas which was given were:

• have the stage bare (not a lot of blocks on the stage) and use the actors as the staging
• have white cloth hanging down from the stage to project 3D backgrounds and include A1 cardboard to bring the shapes/objects out.

All of us have agreed to do the white clothe and cardboard idea as it is a new experience for us and will make the performance stronger and will draw the audience into our performance.

We also have been working on Bertolt Brecht's work to get an idea to put in the show which will also boost the performance level higher and make the show grow and be better by the performance night. One lesson we had not done rehearsals but instead we had learnt about his verfremdungseffekt or Alienation as some people call it and had done some of his work using Ipads using two apps which were called:

• gf
• hj

By doing this we was put into groups of three and had to make a little improvisation using a skill which Brecht had mad called Placards. Adam, Lofty and me was one group and we had mad a small story of a boy who didn't fit in because he didn't believe in himself and blamed himself for everything and he had to fight his mind to make him feel like nothing was keeping behind and then became more happy with himself and was able to move on. the Placards we had used gave it more effect to the performance we improvised.

Since we had done that lesson on Brecht we all have had many ideas using the Placards in our show as well as having the three projectors and white cloth over the set as well as our training and ideas.