This lesson we worked on developing the Tea party scene. In the video above we worked on one development by already adding in props being the picnic basket containing the cutlery and dishes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvTqfbEKu1M
After running through the scene we collectively discussed ways in which we could improve the piece.
Areas for development:
- When Death (Iyla) awaits her puppets (Courtney) arrival, to emphasise time passing more I suggested that she slouched more in her seat, dropping her face and limbs showing boredom and fatigue
- When setting the table, and moving around the space a lot of time Iyla has her back to the audience, we suggested she should lay out the table from the back so that she faces the audience and that the props are visible, showing awareness to the audience
- In addition to improve, Iyla needs to work on her characterisation. Death put a lot of effort into this tea party and is agitated and later furious at the lack of caring from her only friend (by force). Therefore I suggest using more intonation behind her dialogue as well as emotive language and more emphasised facial expressions to portray the progression of emotions from happy to irritated to furious.
https://youtu.be/Ayz6OQvObho
These two videos demonstrate more of the discussion and implementation of developments into the piece. We got Iyla and Courtney to run through the scene and when we found space for improvements we stopped , offered our view and re-did the section to see if it would improve the piece.
Last week we decided we wanted to create a scene describing the embalming of a body after death. Matthew showed us a devised piece he created for his Doctor character, shown below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIxGqCpL59Q&feature=youtu.be
This lesson we also worked on developing Matthew's embalming scene. In the videos bellow you can see how we physically developing the scene and stopped at points to add in improvements. We suggested to have a physical representation of the procedure as before it was only Matthews descriptive monologue.
https://youtu.be/pxMHF8NU9Sk
https://youtu.be/Dsqic4LId9k
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