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It's done, it's finally done. the first draft of our script it done and we're all pretty excited about it. Today, we worked out the kinks in the blocking and Pritina and Farrah walked us through some of the basics like:
1. Talk to the audience and not to each other.
2. Speak loud, don't shout, just be audible
3. Visualise the character you're playing (esp for Judy and Lauren)
4. Listen to your DIRECTORS! (very important)
Now, i just realised that i haven't told you who the characters are, so here we go, in order of appearence:
JUDY - HAZEL
LAUREN - GRETEL
NATASHA - WOODCUTTER FATHER, TREE, COTTAGE, CAGE, OVEN
SAILOSI (ME!) - STEPMOM, BIRD, TOAD, TREE, COTTAGE, WITCH
Yes ladies and gentlemen, i am the witch of the play. Pritina and Farrah are a little skeptical about me playing the witch, but i'll show them. They don't know that i've played the role of a witch several times.
If you have to know, when i was growing up in Malaysia, my school did a production on "The Wizard of Oz" and I was an understudy for the Wicked Witch of the East. You should hear my cackle! God i'm evil...lol
Yeah so, that's about it for today's rehearsal, we're meeting again next week Tuesday in class for some more work on our blocking with maybe Ian or Apete's help.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Working in space
THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2008
Today, I was a little late; it took my bus ages to get out of the city traffic and even longer to get to school... some bus drivers just don't understand the meaning of a person in a rush! GOSH!
So, we did some work in space today on our script. It was pretty fun for me, I mean like it's a totally new experience for me to work out the script in space, as opposed to sitting in front of the computer and actually thinking out the lines. Definately something new for me. But it was a really good experience.
Standing in space, my thoughts were flowing and soon we were done with one scene and moving on to another. We constantly had to work out how to establish certain issues with characters and then from there, try and figure out a blocking for them. Judy and Natasha were an absolute wonder to work with. We couldn't do much for Lauren because she was out of Suva ~ HELLO! it's called the MID SEMESTER BREAK... i only came here because i had nothing to do at home except for watching a few dvd's and trying to look after my niece.
Back to the work at hand, we did a lot of work, soon we had completed 3/4 of the script. Tomorrow we're meeting up to finish off the final scene and we can start working on our blocking and getting the timing right.
YAY! I"m so excited about this performance assessment.
Today, I was a little late; it took my bus ages to get out of the city traffic and even longer to get to school... some bus drivers just don't understand the meaning of a person in a rush! GOSH!
So, we did some work in space today on our script. It was pretty fun for me, I mean like it's a totally new experience for me to work out the script in space, as opposed to sitting in front of the computer and actually thinking out the lines. Definately something new for me. But it was a really good experience.
Standing in space, my thoughts were flowing and soon we were done with one scene and moving on to another. We constantly had to work out how to establish certain issues with characters and then from there, try and figure out a blocking for them. Judy and Natasha were an absolute wonder to work with. We couldn't do much for Lauren because she was out of Suva ~ HELLO! it's called the MID SEMESTER BREAK... i only came here because i had nothing to do at home except for watching a few dvd's and trying to look after my niece.
Back to the work at hand, we did a lot of work, soon we had completed 3/4 of the script. Tomorrow we're meeting up to finish off the final scene and we can start working on our blocking and getting the timing right.
YAY! I"m so excited about this performance assessment.
Brainstorming... i feel a headache coming on
TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2008
It's actually mid-semester break and we've been called in by our Directors - Pritina and Farrah to do some brainstorming on what story we'll do. They came with the idea of us working on Hansel and Gretel, since no other group in the past years has ever done that story. We all agreed to try it out and well it's stuck.
we had to do some brainstorming in space to work out what could happen in each scene; it's stuff like: how do we introduce each character? do the characters have to be "as they are" or can we change them around? what's the moral that we want to present to the kids?
we came up with the following ideas:
1. The true story of Hansel and Gretel ~ it's not hansel and gretel, it's HAZEL AND GRETEL.
2. Since we didn't have a male actor to be Hansel, we switched it to Hazel just for fun
3. The morals of the story have to do with healthy eating... e.g. TOO MUCH CANDY IS BAD FOR YOU!
We worked out a few lines to the script but time had caught up with us, so we planned to meet again on Thursday at the TA space at 4pm for another round of script work.
It's actually mid-semester break and we've been called in by our Directors - Pritina and Farrah to do some brainstorming on what story we'll do. They came with the idea of us working on Hansel and Gretel, since no other group in the past years has ever done that story. We all agreed to try it out and well it's stuck.
we had to do some brainstorming in space to work out what could happen in each scene; it's stuff like: how do we introduce each character? do the characters have to be "as they are" or can we change them around? what's the moral that we want to present to the kids?
we came up with the following ideas:
1. The true story of Hansel and Gretel ~ it's not hansel and gretel, it's HAZEL AND GRETEL.
2. Since we didn't have a male actor to be Hansel, we switched it to Hazel just for fun
3. The morals of the story have to do with healthy eating... e.g. TOO MUCH CANDY IS BAD FOR YOU!
We worked out a few lines to the script but time had caught up with us, so we planned to meet again on Thursday at the TA space at 4pm for another round of script work.
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