LESSON EVALUATION TUESDAY 1ST OCTOBER
PERFORMING OPENING SCENE
PART 1:
In todays lesson we worked on the development of our opening scene. So far its looking good.The movement is perfect at the start, me and Phil in line with each other stopping and supporting each other, Amy and Jake walking around checking we all feel good creating a family vibe, everything works well. The way we all pause to look at the sun and then slowly approach Casy really shows the breakdown in attitudes well to. However, we really need to work on singing. The original song has very strong female backing which works extremely well so we should consider the significance of that. If we dont I think that the movement factor of the opening will be lost and the singing will completely ruin and good initial impressions given.
In the opening I have decided to take on Grampa, I fell its important to show the contrast to how he was then and how he is now. In the opening he is active, working and enjoying what he has with pride, whereas in the performance itself he is weak, not the leader or head as the family he should be, and falls for the ultimate sign of weakness - death.
A link to the opening is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tagfkt6Lm5o
There's a video of this rehearsal on the revolution arts blogspot which you can add here. Are you going to change any of this now you have developed the character of Grandpa, or will you leave the opening as the character you created at the time?
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