General excitedness
Ok, it is officially 58 minutes until Phil arrives in Leeds.
I am SOOOO excited!!! *jumps*
A quick note aside - woop for Isa, our chief cleaner-of-house yesterday, who did an awesome job in restoring our house to its natural shininess, and who unblocked the nasty plughole in the bathroom (which was clearly blocked from the previous tenants - apparently there were weird pieces of pink plastic in it as well... :/). She will hereby be given a rest for two weeks :D
Now that's out of the way, I can tell you what I've been up to today.
My self directed for POP3 was actually brilliant. Today, we were set the task to look at different levels of audience participation, and to pick a text and play around with it to see how we could work with some of the levels. We chose "Our Country's Good", mainly because most of us know it well because we studied it for A Level, but also, it's a really good text to work with, and we all had lots of ideas about what we could do. So, basically, what we're doing is marking out a tight box on the floor of the studio, and the audience is going to be made to sit in it, attached with "chains" (ie. string) to another person. This will represent the boat, and the conditions the convicts were kept in, and since the actors will be sitting in with the audience, we're making them part of the action and part of the performance - participation mode number 1. We're going to have them sitting in the dark (since it would have been on the boat) with the sound effects of the sea around them and the boat creaking.
When the characters talk, they're going to have lights (torches) shone on them, so that the audience's attention is drawn towards the speech. This way, there's a distinction between audience and actors (even though they're all sitting together), since the actors are lit.. - participation mode number 2. I'm going to be one of these people, and I'm going to do the whole piece chained to another actor.
One of the characters is going to be chained to an audience member, and when they speak, they're going to address their speech to the people around them, as if they were having a conversation with them - participation mode number 3.
I'm not entirely sure why we're so excited about this, but I think we know it's going to work really well, and we went through lots of really good ideas to get to this point. Anyway, I can't wait for the lesson tomorrow, because the performance is going to knock everyone's socks off :D
I've been trying desperately to find things to do to waste time so that Phil gets here faster. So far, I've ironed all of my clothes (and some of Isa's and some of Sri's), I've washed up (was going to do that anyway) and cleaned the kitchen (wasn't going to do that, but it was gross) and.. well, I'm doing this. Time sure does go slowly, doesn't it?
*jumps*
I am SOOOO excited!!! *jumps*
A quick note aside - woop for Isa, our chief cleaner-of-house yesterday, who did an awesome job in restoring our house to its natural shininess, and who unblocked the nasty plughole in the bathroom (which was clearly blocked from the previous tenants - apparently there were weird pieces of pink plastic in it as well... :/). She will hereby be given a rest for two weeks :D
Now that's out of the way, I can tell you what I've been up to today.
My self directed for POP3 was actually brilliant. Today, we were set the task to look at different levels of audience participation, and to pick a text and play around with it to see how we could work with some of the levels. We chose "Our Country's Good", mainly because most of us know it well because we studied it for A Level, but also, it's a really good text to work with, and we all had lots of ideas about what we could do. So, basically, what we're doing is marking out a tight box on the floor of the studio, and the audience is going to be made to sit in it, attached with "chains" (ie. string) to another person. This will represent the boat, and the conditions the convicts were kept in, and since the actors will be sitting in with the audience, we're making them part of the action and part of the performance - participation mode number 1. We're going to have them sitting in the dark (since it would have been on the boat) with the sound effects of the sea around them and the boat creaking.
When the characters talk, they're going to have lights (torches) shone on them, so that the audience's attention is drawn towards the speech. This way, there's a distinction between audience and actors (even though they're all sitting together), since the actors are lit.. - participation mode number 2. I'm going to be one of these people, and I'm going to do the whole piece chained to another actor.
One of the characters is going to be chained to an audience member, and when they speak, they're going to address their speech to the people around them, as if they were having a conversation with them - participation mode number 3.
I'm not entirely sure why we're so excited about this, but I think we know it's going to work really well, and we went through lots of really good ideas to get to this point. Anyway, I can't wait for the lesson tomorrow, because the performance is going to knock everyone's socks off :D
I've been trying desperately to find things to do to waste time so that Phil gets here faster. So far, I've ironed all of my clothes (and some of Isa's and some of Sri's), I've washed up (was going to do that anyway) and cleaned the kitchen (wasn't going to do that, but it was gross) and.. well, I'm doing this. Time sure does go slowly, doesn't it?
*jumps*
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Thanx Lizzy (L)
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