Tech Run 18.5.14

Our tech went really well and jo and Jonathan gave us some notes to work on during Monday and tuesday before the performances.

Notes:
James interaction with audience at the beginning - be more stern, intimidate

Work on dynamic range

James vocal volume - louder

Daisy and James - stricter with audience, more direct, mixture of German and English

Elsa and James - make more of the look in the hub, stylised with circling

James - list in dance lines driven more

Daisy- more fierce with "do this and die"

Mandi kneel down

James look and then hide quickly

As James exits off balcony. Mandi enters - overlap

Nat - keep eyes up

Grease hair up

Shoe scene - looks not vocals and gradually build the singing PRACTICE POINT

Nat and Becs - be firm with the audience when moving

Sort out address and paper

Hero will take gun and hold to James and Beatrice takes it away PRACTICE POINT

Rehearsal 16.5.14

Our aim for this rehearsal is to work through the rest of the notes from our previous run and run through some scenes.

Our rehearsal went well and our aim for next Monday and tuesday is to keep running scenes so that the intent is right ready for the performances on Tuesday and Thursday.

Rehearsal 15.5.14

In yesterday's rehearsal we did a run of our piece - although we only walked through it as some bits, such as a couple of the transitions were incomplete.

These are the notes we got from Jonathan, jo and rose: (see picture)

In today's rehearsal we went through the highlighted points on the notes.

Next rehearsal we will concentrate on the uninhibited notes.

Rehearsals 9th,12th,13th,14th may

During these Rehearsals we worked through the feedback we got from the teachers and then we spent time piecing together the scenes we had created and working out how to do the transitions. We also finalised where all the scenes would take place.

Feedback from run

Feedback

Nice opening - striking - works, sets tone

Moment needed between Beatrice and benedick to show a spark/connection (establishment needed in earlier sections) - concentrate on looks between characters

Singing lovely - very haunting

Wooden coat hangers

Show that daisy and James aren't the best of friends

Show intent - being made to say it or get killed (find moment to be threaten by daisy)

Officer? Ranks?

Shoe sorting - already starting scene?

Daisy killing in front of camp mates - embarrassing her

Think about how Ursulas death affects
benedick

Move the audience in the scene dock to second scene

Share the coat figures 3 - dimension

Violin is lovely - is there a moment of defiancy

Rehearsals 7.5.14 and 8.5.14

7.5.14
The aim of this rehearsal was to make sure the camp life scene is complete and go over the scenes that we have already done to recap and start adding detail.

8.5.14
The aim of this rehearsal was to recreate the romance scene still working with the clothes swapping idea. For this we asked rose for help. (The final product is in a separate blog post)

Video from rehearsal 8.5.14

Romance scene: http://youtu.be/PAz2kfdOhJs