Thursday 22nd January 2015

Thursday 22^nd January 2015

In Thursday’s lesson we worked on Tale 3 which is the ensemble Tale. This is where everybody is involved on the stage. My group consists of; Ellis, Gloria, Phoebe, Cameron and myself. Our group are East End plasterers & decorators. We made this as a class look really good as we said some words as a whole as well as dividing the lines out between the class. For example, some word we say as a whole company: “A bit of everything”, “Yeah cheers, London pride!” and “Looks like snow again dunnit” and we also had individual lines as well for example, my line is; “And then he’ll ask you for credit”. This is going to look effective to the audience because when one person is speaking it makes the audience focused to one person, however as soon as the whole company speaks it snaps them out of their focus and they realise the whole company is talking which gives the tale volume and good ensemble work. In my group I contributed ideas such as, what actions we could do for this tale. For example, Gloria, Ellis and I are painters and I suggested using different levels so that it made the staging look more interesting. I am on the floor painting the lower wall, Ellis is painting the middle of the wall and Gloria is painting higher on the walls. Cameron and Phoebe are decorators in this tale and they are standing up opposite each other decorating the walls.

After we worked on tale 3 as a class, we focused on the taxi prologue we started shaping last week. In this lesson my group decided to perfect as well as add improvements to our actions. This lesson we learnt and memorised all our lines and added in levels as well as running through our whole stanzas without scripts. We got our teacher to look over the work we had created and she gave us some tips for improvements such as: facing the audience, because we are telling the tale to the audience not each other. Therefore we took this into consideration and made sure we staged ourselves so that we are diagonal towards the audience.

At the end of the lesson we worked on our individual tales with our small groups. My group is (Natasha, Stacey, Max and Cameron). We have now finished our tale 4. We got our teacher to look at our Tale and Miss gave us some great feedback! Miss told us that she thought we included some great sounds of weathering and also great use of physical theatre and creating the emotions and background objects. However to improve Miss Lee told us to have a moment of silence to create suspense for the audience. This was really useful feedback for our group because we developed our tale further to make it better.