We started Dont Feed The Animals Today(DFTA)
I missed the first part of the lesson where they had to do a speed run of DFTA and pick out the main factors of the play. But I got to the lesson in time to watch them, so that was helpful to see what everyone did. After that Rachel put us into a few new groups and we had to speak about gangs and personal experience with gangs, or if you've ever been in involved in a gang. Rachel gave us some of examples of what to talk about and that made me remember a few things. I remembered the time where there were about 20 of us chilling out and goring gap and we had a bbq and played football and various games and we stayed there until midnight. Even though its not a stereotypical gang story, it still involved more than 4 people.
I was with Dylan, Amber and Amy. We went with Dylans story, which was about the time him and Josh were getting on the train and they were laughing about something before they got on a bus and they couldn't help it. So when they sat down they were still laughing and then a old lady kept turning around eventually told them to shut up and stop making so much noise.
We all thought this was a good story to use so me and Dylan said we'd play the two people getting on the bus and Amber said she will play the old women on the bus. We then needed a part for Amy, so thought she could a middle aged women on the bus telling the old lady that they are not doing anything wrong. We went through it a few times and it worked really well. We added our own bits to it. Me and Dylan mentioned that we were laughing about something, but we weren't given it away to the audience. So it would look even funnier to the audience, as its meant to be a funny story anyway.
Previous Blog:
- challenges of touring TIE(3)
- props/costume
-space
-music (research in touring) stage website
-behaviour
Stimulus - your starting point
- could talk about: frantic assembly, the bus scene, michael lee.
Next Blog:
- blog project purposal
1. Skills audit - write details backing up your order: (why are they in that order)
1. Dancing: - I've chosen dancing as my strongest, because I've been dancing since I was younger, so I'm well experienced
2. Acting - Ive chosen Acting next as I think I'm fairly strong at it, and I did a lot of Acting throughtout my school life.
3. Singing - I chose singing as my weakest as I'm not a very confident, loud singer. I can sing in tune, but I wouldn't say I'm powerful and definitely not as confident as I'am with Dancing and Acting.
2. Early Reactions to casting, script and character:
My early reactions to the play were good. I really liked the sound of it and it sounded like a lot of fun as it was to do with the circus. My first thoughts on my character were that I think this could be quite easy. I'm Gang 4, I don't actually have a character. My fellow Gang members are Lauren, Amber and Charlotte. My reaction to the script was quite good in a way because I noticed I didn't have that many lines, so I can learn my lines quickly and then focus really well on my character. I also was a bit disappointed with getting a really small part, but Rachel gave me a really good part for WWRY, so she's made it equal for everyone.
3. Production - Role - Costume:
My costume is very easy to do, because we are all school children on the bunk. I can make my outfit a little bit more chavvy too, as I'm in a gang of four. I could think about wearing a hoodie, and not typical school shoes, so its shows that I'm a little bit rebellious.
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