After doing a physical warm up to ensure we were ready to run through this piece with a limited risk of injury we began work on the first scene. We performed my scene with my recorded narration and without scripts. Bearing in mind this was our first run through of this scene without any scripts, we did rather well as we remembered all of the movement. However, there are a couple of areas that need to be polished - mainly the section after putting Charlie down having done the lift on "rise up to the sky". All we have left to do for this scene is to tidy the ending and little details (such as which shoulder we turn over, etc.) and perform the scene with our masks. As we have a fairly large gap at the end between pulsing our hands towards Charlie and forming our circle at the end, I thought we could walk to our line at the front again to take our masks off and place them down, before forming our circle at the end of the scene. I shall suggest this next lesson when we do this scene again.
After my scene, we moved on to James's scene. This is the scene we have worked on the most but we still had some issues with it today. Unfortunately, as James's narration is not recorded and is live, the timing isn't consistent, therefore we really have to listen to him. However, we cannot change the timing of our dance section (as we perform to the music) so James needs to keep an eye on how we are doing and alter his speed if needs be. The only other thing we have left to do for this scene is to rehearse with the sheet for our silhouettes. We shall film this scene when we rehearse with the sheet to see what the silhouettes look like and see if we need to alter our placements and spacing to improve the silhouettes themselves.
We then moved on to Lewis's scene. We went over this scene a couple of times as Rhiannon wasn't in the lesson that Lewis directed this scene. After doing this scene a couple of times, we all felt more confident with the movement, and felt fine without using our scripts. Lewis's narration was clear as he had good diction and he paced it well. All we have left to do for this scene is to make the placards and run the scene with them. This could take a while to tidy as they could be problematic (for example, we may not know where to put our placards when we no longer need them and where to pick them up from).
Robert's narration is going to be recorded now (as his scene is very long and he cannot use his script as this would restrict his movement too much). Instead of everyone who has lines saying their lines over the top of the recording (which could be problematic as I have quite a few and could easily get the timing wrong), we began recording all of us reading the narration and lines together on the same recording. However, we didn't manage to finish this as we were interrupted by children being noisy outside during their PE lesson. Therefore, we shall continue recording the narration after school on Monday, when it is quieter.
