Week Twenty-four

 21/03/2022

We got to watch ourselves today. We watched the video of ourselves, of the Remote performance. It was long. I'm not a huge fan of this show, which may be why I didn't enjoy it as much. Some things I noticed that need improving of myself are: Some yoga poses. Some yoga poses just looked horrendous. We were completely out of time and it just didn't look right. These were the laying down ones and the ones where we were doing work outs. Of course another thing was projection. I could overall hear myself but some words could have been louder, which would have also helped the audience to just feel at ease, instead of trying to listen out for whats being said, so that they could understand whats going on. After we watched the video, we got given a paper and we had to write down what character we want to play for Blood Brothers. I wrote down Linda as my first choice and Mrs Lyons as my second. I honestly don't really want Mrs Lyons but I felt like I have to have a second option. Afterwards the second years had to leave and us first years went through most of the Blood Brothers script. We got given some people that we had to read out based of of what we wrote down on the paper of who we want to play. At some point I got to read out for Mrs Lyons. The script is really nice, but it has a lot of things missing from what the musical has. 

22/03/2022

It was our first run through of Remote after our performance of it. A lot of people didn't want to do it, so they were being lazy and didn't focus which was annoying as there were some people who just wanted to get through it all. Most people remembered their lines which was really good and only a few forgot their ques. I believe that if people listened we could have improved on a lot, but since they didn't, we didn't really end up getting anywhere. We also got told some things that we need to improve on. The main one was delivering our lines too the audience. Sometimes we'd say our lines to each other but we believe it'll be better to talk to the audience. Another thing we did was measure out the space we have for when we transfer to York. Its a lot smaller. Like a lot. But its nothing me and my group can't handle. Since there isn't much room me and the Yoga group had to get rid of another mat, so we are now down to two mats. We have two people on each mat and it still overall looks really good. It's just going to limit our moves meaning we can't do as many yoga positions as before. 

23/03/2022

We actually went through the whole show today! We had to stop every now and then for people to notice ques, and fix some things when talking. The times the talking had to be fixed was for when we had the narration and had to look and say it to the audience, as some people kept forgetting and needed reminding. Today was a really good rehearsal and we have managed to already make it look like a slightly different show. We also talked about where we can come on stage from as on one side there is hardly any room. We talked about it and everyone decided where we would come from. Since there is less space some people can't sit where they were last positioned so we had to think about where some people can go. 

24/03/2022

Today we were meant to present our pitch presentation for our sick-com, but the degree students for performing arts had a show on. As part of the performing arts we decided to watch the show to support them. It was amazing. This show had so much emotion in it and they all portrayed that very well. I'm super proud of them, and not to mention that one of my friends from my course was in it! he was absolutely outstanding! We are now going to be doing our pitches next Thursday.