I kind of forgot I had a blog. Oops! (Part Deux)

BONJOUR! Again.

So here's Tuesday!

Tuesday 28th Sept
So on Tuesday we had Nick! We had to work on character development again, however we started off concentrating on the staging of our scenes. He drew us a little diagram showing us some drama staging terminology such as centre stage, upstage left etc etc. It was quite beneficial for Me as I had forgotten it all and had to follow a friend of mine when Siobhan asked us to go upstage left. Clever Me! The diagram looked a little like this

Although the diagram I drew looked a lot more like one of those football formation thingy's. Anyways! Because our scene is set in a dinning room as a group we decided that for our staging and props we would need:

• Dinning table
• Chairs
• Sofa or a sheet to go over some chairs to create a sofa
• Screen (for Olga to be behind)
• Plates and cutlery

After listing what we would possibly need and use for our scene we decided where everything would go roughly. So far we thought the dinning table should to CSR but in a diagonal angle, the screen would be USL andthe sofa would be placed CSL. Which would give us enough room to move around at the centre of the stage. However, we have yet to try this out therefore we might have to make some changes later on when we rehearse with our props and staging.

As a class we then had to do a presentation of our character to everyone. I found this activity very interesting as it immediately helped me identify everyones character to an extent and gave me a brief outline of how the characters personality might be like. Nick then asked us to create an Emotional chart (plotting the patterns of events your character goes through your the scene) or a timeline (allows the audience or reader to gain an understanding of the events your character has gone through). 

Irena is usually shy, and reserved throughout the whole play but has always wanted to go back home to Moscow and is also longing to find love. However, in the scene I'm doing she has a bit of a breakdown while Olga and Masha attempt to calm her down. Thus, my emotional chart gradually goes higher as Irena gets more and more annoyed and angry in the scene.

Afterwards, Nick decided to have each group to perform to the class. He would then change bits of the performances to show us how altering and adjusting something small can have a bigger impact and look better (there was a word for it but I can't remember it).
Nick then decided to wrap up the day by playing games in the last half an hour which included trying to get to get your group (four of us) to the other side of the room using one piece of paper, and wink murder. YAY!
Oh, and Mario hurt his thumb. Sad times.