Tuesday 20 May 2014

How the show is starting

We have finally got the start of the show sorted and how we are going to start and which part of the stage we are all going to start from. Now that we have the intro for the play finally on-going we have now added the dance, so how it starts so far is that:
it starts with a blackout and no one is on stage (everyone is stage back left) and slowly the lights will light up and Beth (alpha female) walks on stage in the middle, Meg then goes on and stands on Beths left and I follow and stand on her right (three strongest wolves in the pack). Then one by one everyone will follow but not standing behind us they will slowly push through me, Beth and Meg and get in front of us and form a backwards triangle shape, soon as the last person has gotten through to the front Beth will then move again to the front and Meg and I follow but then everyone follow but stay behind us then after everyone has stopped moving the person at the back puts their hand on the persons shoulders in front of them for them to do the same until me and Meg have put our hands on Beth to give her the cue to kneel down and we all follow, this was a great way to show that we was the pack of wolves hunting or prowling through looking for a prey then we wait a couple of seconds and when Beth is ready she will stand up and all of us follow but not at once because it would make the movement look to plain so we all ripple up line by line and we would run around the stage blocks which we had up for the dancing wolves run into the center stage ready for the first routine. 
This was the main start of the beginning to show what the wolves would look like and how they are in a pack, even though it is a children's play we all got focused and made ourselves look hungry and ready to kill so at the same time we had to look scary and the best way for the dancers to do so was to stare someone out from the audience only because this would give of a better effect of us standing out as wolves.
 Meg
Jay       Jess
Lofty
Chloe       Amy
As the dance phrase begins the six of us all start of in unison and part of the movements which we do show positions which wolves do when they are hunting or have found something moving for example: quick head movement to the right and back to the front at the same speed: this shows the audience that the wolves see something and have quick and swift movements to find what they want to find. We have also added a cannon movement part way through the routine and it starts from the front to the back: Meg starts, me and Jess follow, Lofty then Chloe and Amy: as we all start to rise up from the floor we come up slow but staring out some of the audience and walk back slowly then turn towards the back and continue to walk off stage but we do a quick look back to the audience before we finish walking of stage.
This is the full start of the show to have a cue ready to enter the first scene of the show which brings Willoughby chase alive as the starter scene.

1 comment:

  1. You have added a little more insight here into the attitude of the wolves, and you describe the opening scene well. You need to show a little more about the process that you all went through to develop this scene.

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