Friday, 18 April 2014

Lesson 4- My first scene as Miss Havisham


Lesson 4 - 13th February
In this weeks lesson we introduced Miss Havisham and Estella and began working on the scene where Pip visits Miss Havisham's house for the first time. This was exciting for me because I haven't acted as my character yet so I finally got to test out all the practice of physicality's I have had in previous lessons. We started by setting a way for Miss Havisham to enter onto the stage in a visually effective way, we decided that I would come on and stand next to the chair that I would later sit on, with my back turned to the audience. this made it more effective as when I turned round and sat on the chair it signified a change of setting ( from going upstairs to my room into my room). 
 
 Testing out my voice and physicality was really interesting for me, but a big learning curve as I could see what worked and what didn't. I found that my voice was a sharper and more bitter than the original voice I was going for ( the BBC adaption of G.E), I preferred it and my director liked it as well so I found this really helpful.

In this lesson we also were given sheets where we had to pick one person and asses there rehearsal level and characterisation. Zion and I worked together. I watched her throughout rehearsals and could see that she was focused and listened to feedback given to her by her director, she also was learning her lines and adding detail to her character even though chorus still making her character strong and her own. My feedback was also positive however points I need to work on for next week will be to work even more on my characterisation and work with different voices and physicality, by testing these things as much as possible I know the end result of my character will be the best it can be. Doing this task helped us to see what we were doing well and what areas we needed to improve on,  by giving us an insight into what others thought of us. This was successful as i now know what i need to do in order to gain a distinction in the rehearsal process and how to improve my character in during reearsals.


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