Last week of term and our piece:
So the last week of term came around really fast, and on the last lesson on the Friday we prepared to perform our piece to 4 random audience members.
Mr. Fearnehough did explain to our audience that this was a work in progress and it still had a lot of work doing to it before it would be completely ready for perform. So I thought that our piece was a success in total. Our Frantic Assembly scene was by far our best scene because we had spent the most time working on it because it required lifts and other moves that could be dangerous if not done properly.
I feel that if we used more of our time to focus on scene transitions and how we were going to incorporate the effects into our piece then it may have run smoother than the final product did.
For my personal section of this task, that being the lighting and projection. I feel this part was partly successful, but also did not accomplish what I originally intended it to do.
My use of the follow spot light I feel went well, we were able to use it well in our Frantic Assembly piece. The blue light added to the overall effect that this created and I thought it was successful from both a design and directorial point of view.
Some audience comments about how the piece went:
I believe the piece was intended to shock the audience and possibly scare or even alienate them.
The group did manage to convey this successfully by changes in sound and tension state. It thought it worked but could have been more exaggerated
The costume was black, so there wasn't much of an impact (which I thought of as a good thing as it allowed me to focus on the acting more) The masks made me feel uncomfortable and added to the general atmosphere of nightmares
If the piece was supposed to be about nightmares, including me really made me feel part of the nightmare. It felt more real being included.
As you can see from these audience comments, our piece did set out to do some of the things that we had intended for it to do. The fact that the piece was intended to shock the audience was portrayed well, and it even came across as though it was to alienate the audience which was good feedback to hear.
Also as explained above they say that including them in the nightmare made it feel more real. This was a major part of what we were trying to achieve so I am glad that we managed to do that.
A servant and two masters - Directors Notebook.
A brief summary on what the play is about would go along the lines of it being about a servant who deceives his TWO masters into thinking that he is being loyal to only one of them.
My initial thoughts on reading this play was that it took me quite a while to get the plot. I had finally figured out everything that was going on by about the start of Act 2. One thing that took me a while to figure out were the different characters. One character that I didn't seem to like was Truffaldino, he seemed to be a tricky and quite devious character that almost made it seem like they wanted you to hate him.
Main characters that are involved in the play:
So the last week of term came around really fast, and on the last lesson on the Friday we prepared to perform our piece to 4 random audience members.
Mr. Fearnehough did explain to our audience that this was a work in progress and it still had a lot of work doing to it before it would be completely ready for perform. So I thought that our piece was a success in total. Our Frantic Assembly scene was by far our best scene because we had spent the most time working on it because it required lifts and other moves that could be dangerous if not done properly.
I feel that if we used more of our time to focus on scene transitions and how we were going to incorporate the effects into our piece then it may have run smoother than the final product did.
For my personal section of this task, that being the lighting and projection. I feel this part was partly successful, but also did not accomplish what I originally intended it to do.
My use of the follow spot light I feel went well, we were able to use it well in our Frantic Assembly piece. The blue light added to the overall effect that this created and I thought it was successful from both a design and directorial point of view.
Some audience comments about how the piece went:
I believe the piece was intended to shock the audience and possibly scare or even alienate them.
The group did manage to convey this successfully by changes in sound and tension state. It thought it worked but could have been more exaggerated
The costume was black, so there wasn't much of an impact (which I thought of as a good thing as it allowed me to focus on the acting more) The masks made me feel uncomfortable and added to the general atmosphere of nightmares
If the piece was supposed to be about nightmares, including me really made me feel part of the nightmare. It felt more real being included.
As you can see from these audience comments, our piece did set out to do some of the things that we had intended for it to do. The fact that the piece was intended to shock the audience was portrayed well, and it even came across as though it was to alienate the audience which was good feedback to hear.
Also as explained above they say that including them in the nightmare made it feel more real. This was a major part of what we were trying to achieve so I am glad that we managed to do that.
A servant and two masters - Directors Notebook.
A brief summary on what the play is about would go along the lines of it being about a servant who deceives his TWO masters into thinking that he is being loyal to only one of them.
My initial thoughts on reading this play was that it took me quite a while to get the plot. I had finally figured out everything that was going on by about the start of Act 2. One thing that took me a while to figure out were the different characters. One character that I didn't seem to like was Truffaldino, he seemed to be a tricky and quite devious character that almost made it seem like they wanted you to hate him.
Main characters that are involved in the play:
- Smeraldina
- Beatrice
- Brighella
- Silvio
- Truffaldino
- Clarice
- Florindo
- Dr Lombardi
- Pantaloon
But the ones involved in my scene are:
- Silvio
- Dr Lombardi
- Pantaloon
