AAS (36) - CIDNT - Full scene & Vocals

In this lesson we finally completed our "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" physical theatre scene. We polished what we thought we needed to after last lesson. Movement wise, what we needed to do was the very beginning of the scene:

• "I waited for five more minutes..." -- For the whole of this section we stand in a tight group with Ollie in the centre. We stand still so that the audience listens to the dialogue and is not distracted by watching movement. This also intrigues the audience as to what is going to happen thus creating a sense of tension. 
• On the "Left, right, left right" lines, we walk forwards as a group and then all split. When we split, Oliver and I walk out to opposite sides and then walk round in our own circles. This shows the different sides to London and how disorientating it can be for someone who hasn't been there before. Whilst Oliver and I split and circle, Kat and James split and walk backwards to their beginning positions. This forms a square around Ollie in the centre. The fact that James and Kat walk back is symbolic of how Christopher probably should have gone back, foreshadowing that it was a mistake to travel on his own. 

Also, in this lesson, we recorded all the dialogue properly. This took quite a long time as we wanted to create certain effects on the audience. As we are rapidly running out of time before our performance, and James' voice still isn't back to normal, and he keeps coughing, we asked him if he would be happy if we split his voice lines up and gave them to Oliver, Kat and I. We said that he could still be Ed - he was happy for this. By not having James in the Voice recording it meant that we didn't have to keep stopping due to him coughing. For the Voice section, Kat, Oliver and I said all the lines very close to each other and over-lapping at times to create the busy atmosphere of London. We also tried to make each one slightly different so it didn't just sound repetitive. The Ed and Christopher recording went well. They did a couple of practice runs just to get the emotion and characterisation right, so it sounded really good on the recording. For the Ed and Christopher section, and the Information and Christopher section as well, we had to leave moments of silence in the track as Ollie is going to be saying all of his lines live. Before we finalised each different section, Ollie spoke his lines to the recording to ensure that enough of a gap was left for him to fit his lines in. Now that the recording is all done, Ollie will be putting these all together on one track with appropriate music underneath.