In today's lesson, we decided to run as much of the script as we could. We went from the beginning and kept running the piece until we found anything we wasn't sure on, or wanted to alter.
Page 24: The first section we decided to alter was when Winston collapses in the Book Club on page 24. Originally we just had Winston walking in looking dazed, humming the tune of "Oranges and Lemons", and then stumbling and passing out. However, we thought this looked a little sparse and Rob found this difficult to make it look naturalistic. Therefore, we decided that Rob would just walk in to the middle, and the rest of us would walk in at different times to form a half circle around him. We thought that Lewis and James would walk in first, as Rob would then walk in towards them and then be stopped by them. Rob would then turn around and bump into Kat, as she will walk in after Lewis and James. This would keep happening until an entire half circle was formed around him by the rest of us. When Rob realises he has been surrounded he stumbles and falls. We will have a black out just before he is caught by Lewis. When the lights come back up, Rob is left on the floor and we are all seated in our Book Club positions. When we are all forming a circle around him, we thought that we could represent his thoughts to suggest that his thoughts and mind will one day be the death of him. When we all walk in towards Rob, we decided that we would sing "Oranges and Lemons" as we walk in - we decided we would sing at different times, rather than everyone sing at once. The purpose of this was to make the song sound distorted to represent Winston's confused state of mind. Moreover, by us singing, it meant that we were not adding another sound cue (as we already have a lot of these, and the less we have of them the less there is to go wrong, hopefully!).
Page 31: Originally, Charlie sat down and delivered his lines as Speakwrite. However, he now stands up instead as he looks less humane standing up and staring out to the front. Also, whilst this is happening, the rest of us would start typing. This would represent us doing Winston's job. This also makes everyone look quite inhumane as we are sitting up tall with a blank expression.
