After rehearsing a lot after school, we finally managed to finish our performance, to a standard we were very happy with. A massive struggle was getting the lines matched correctly to the movements, and remembering all of this. We had 20+ attempts at recordings, therefore by the end, our energy was significantly low. I am very happy with the outcome, as I feel we didn't portray any of this in our final performance. Here is the performance...
This weekend, we worked on our EAST piece by Steven Berkoff. It took quite a long time to learn our lines and then add the movements to the lines. Tristan and I recorded our scene quite a few times, but even when we thought we were happy with it, it still didn't look clean and smooth enough when we looked over it again today. Silvana, Emma, Tristan and I have all decided that re-filming this is the best option for us to get it done the way we want. Here is our final rehearsal of EAST...
In the afternoon, we re-recorded our 4.48 Psychosis piece by Sarah Kane. When we performed it in the Barthel Hall, it didn't have the eerie effect we wanted as the lights were all very bright and the audience was very close to the action so they could hear us moving and breathing. Here is that recording...
We decided to film it in the auditorium instead so that we could have the lighting a bit darker and the music louder. I feel like this performance went so much better than last time and we were all really happy with it, so we finished off by recording our post-performance discussion. Here are both of those...
Performance
Post-performance evaluation
Today, we came up with 4 different chair duets, to eventually combine into a chair quartet. We used inspiration from an old series of chair duets we had put together at the beginning of our BTEC course...
