Rachel was not in again today, so she left us all a message and told us what to work on. She told us to run through Act 1 and Act 2 without scripts and go over Act 3 with Sam, if she's available. We already had an idea of what to do, and instantly came up with a plan.
The first thing we did was sit down and do a read through without our DFTA scripts. It went okay, but still some people didn't know their lines or cues so it was a little frustrating. But we overcome this, by going over those bits again. I knew all my lines, and found the read through went okay. We then all decided to get up and run through Act 1 without scripts. Emily was the only one who went on with a script, so she could prompt any of us if we got the lines messed up or someone forgot them. This went really bad and no one was concentrating at all. Everyone was forgetting their cues, their lines, and everyone was talking on stage. I was trying to get through it without arguing with everyone, because no one was paying attention and no would pay attention anyway. As everyone was getting annoyed we had to start it again
The second run through went a little bit better than the first one. As we knew the first run through went awful, we knew we had to concentrate for this next run through, as it was important. We did the same thing, with Emily holding a script to prompt us. Everyone acted more professional and worked together properly as a group really well. Some people still needed promoting every now and then, but at least it went better than the first one and we overcame it really well. I could concentrate a lot more and I felt much better after doing a proper run though and we happily run through Act 2 too.
Unfortunately the atmosphere was very odd and awkward in today's lesson, and that why we didn't really concentrate at all. I think it's because we had no teacher to take direction. But all realised we should of been professional about it the first place. We all at least once or twice spoke during rehearsal time, but we definitely all learnt from that. The second half of the lesson everyone worked on their blog's as we knew we were falling behind a bit. Thankfully I got quite a bit done.
Later during the day we also run through Act 3. Near enough everyone is in Act 3. As Josh.M was sttruggling with his timing Emily helped him with it, as if he didn't get it right, it would confuse the rest of the group as he was the one at the front, starting it off. Josh eventually was getting the hang of it.We went over bits of the dance that needed cleaning up. After a while, we thought we needed some more ideas for Act 3, as we hadn't finished it properly all the way through. So we had a look online, on youtube and Grace found a really good video of dance that we could use. It involved people standing in straight a line, facing the audience, and doing different levels of movements with our arms. People were suggesting start with the smallest and the front and the tallest at the back, but I thought it would be better if we had the tallest at the front and the smallest at the back, so the person at the front can only be seen and then all the audience will see are the arm movements. We took a while to work on it as it was quite hard for everyone to get the timing of the arms. Plus we had an odd number of people so the we couldn't do it in a count of 8. So we would double up the people to make it 8 counts. We found this worked really well and it looked really cool from the front. We then all positioned/moved our arms at the same time, into a different position to change it up a bit. Then we brought our arms all the way to the top together at the same time and on each count until we get to 8, we brought our arms down really quickly and then the music completely changed to fast paced and we hadn't planned anything afterwards, but we all just suddenly broke out of the line and went mental. It worked really well and we ended up adding it in. We were all so chuffed and it put everyone in a better mood. Emily came up with the idea that when we break out, we act like our animal characters. So mine would be a monkey. This worked well as then Ben comes on with his whip and starts taming the animals. We all pulled together really well at the end of the lesson. It was less stressful and everyone was concentrated and the performance came together really well in the end.
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