Tuesday 17 May 2016

Single - Contemporary Theatre Unit (1984) - Blog 9 - 17/05/16

This lesson, we began with vocal exercises and then went on to create our prologue for 1984!

We started with vocal exercises which would help us regulate our breath by breathing through our diaphragm, project our voices without straining our throats, improving our diction and articulation with tongue twisters

For our prologue, we wanted to keep a lot of stuff we had in our prologue for After Troy but making it relevant to 1984. Below is our movement we have so far:
  • Rhiannon, Kat, Rob, Ollie K, Ollie M and Lewis are seated in the center looking up at propaganda projected onto the ceiling. This last for the entire soft start to Avenged Sevenfold's, "Nightmare."
  • During the first explosive bar, Lorna, James, Charlie and Hope step in with a stomp from each corner (Lorna - Back Right, Charlie - Back Left, James - Front Left, Hope - Front Right.)
  • During the second, us in the center huddle in to each other in fear of what will happen.
  • For the third, Hope and James come toward Kat and Rhiannon and pull out a small sheet of material from behind them which represent their thoughts, Rhiannon's colour would represent bad thoughts whilst Kat's would represent good thoughts.
  • The rest of us on the floor, including Kat, stand and back away in disgust of Rhiannon's bad thoughts. The "enforcers" back grab her but she runs to the back.
  • Rhiannon attempts to run and jump over the enforcers but she grabs Charlie's shoulders and Lorna and I lift her legs up. We push her up, then she runs to the back again. She runs back in, Charlie lifts her shoulders above her head, Lorna grabs her core, James and Hope grab her legs and the rest of us are there for support.
This is all we have so far but we are hoping to complete this next lesson.

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