Devising (16) - Rob and Lewis scenes

In today's lesson we ran the two scenes we have so far. We thought that this would be a good use of time, as we haven't done some of the scenes for a long time. We didn't do our transitions, as we are planning on doing a lesson focussing on just these in the near future.

We began with Rob's scene, as this was the first scene we did. We had to do this scene a few times today to ensure we all remembered it, and to polish our work. Unfortunately, Lewis hasn't had the chance to sort the music for our piece as a whole yet, but he shall do this for next lesson.

We then put all of Lewis's scene, so far, together. We changed how we mimed holding a camera. We thought that miming taking pictures looked naturalistically looked a bit cliché - it looked especially weird as we were doing abstract movements with it. Therefore, we decided that we would position our hands as shown in image - this was more abstract. We edited the section of our piece inspired by our workshop, where we stood in one place but followed Lewis with our cameras - we now use our new way of presenting a camera, but we all change the angle on which we hold our cameras very slowly, to look a little bit creepy and more intimidating - changing the angle represented us zooming in and out. We also worked a lot on our walking as an ensemble section - we altered this slightly so we aren't just walking forwards. Counts one and two are steps backwards, three to seven are walks forwards, and we change direction on count eight. This made the scene look a bit more frantic and disorientating. We then tried the dialogue section - the script is a lot better, but we still need to overlap more to make it see more natural and realistic. Lewis's movements whilst this was happening was really believable.