1st October : Tension Studies, practice that had us perform a job or task such as cleaning a car with varying amounts of energy. Was good, let’s you perceive different ways of doing a specific thing, potentially use in scenes if it lacks ‘energy’ or content.
2nd November: Evelyn and Gabe enter left and right side of stage with something covering their faces. They hang up a coat onto a coat rack before turning around and smiling, identically to how Sir Hugh will be doing it during the whole movement piece. Stage 1: Hugh will be miming the actions of the script; hands on head with smile, the sun could be one of the currently not used actors.
Plot Points: Hugh’s interrogation. Hugh’s death. Pre-wedding party. Finding the note. Evelyn seeing phantom version of herself. Nightmares. Nurse MacDonald seeing the spirit.
Notes from Notes app:
Acting Notes
5 Goals:
Make dependable friends who understand ME.
Become an independent person that can handle them self in any given scenario.
Expand my knowledge beyond what I have already learnt and use that to better MYSELF.
Become a more charismatic, confident person that people know and speak fondly of.
Work on my insecurities and change my perception on myself. Use them to change how I see others and learn how they can make us have more humanity.
Make feeling uncomfortable feel more easily manageable.
16th September 2021, Notes:
Password: ellenterry1
Any realistic horror movie should NEVER have a part two.
Find unison. Remembering to stay at the same pace, but also foreshadow you’re gonna be moving
The modern world is ridged
Physical theatre
A critical introduction
Started with keepy-upy
Bucket Ball
Ribbon of Destiny
White and gold shoes from foot asylum
23rd September
Mantra:
Mirror -> Explore -> Copy -> Heighten -> Transform
Flexibility = Objective. Similar to space practice.
Improvisation -> missing something from nothing.
Don’t make excuses -> use self to make play, use hands to make props and improv. it.
Sporling used education to develop, through colleges and schools.
Message Glenn on weekend
Jacque LeCoq
7 states of tension
1. Half asleep
2. Cool, fluid relaxed
3. Neutral
4. Questioning
5. Positive, drawn towards
6. Negative, repelled
7. Rigormortis
Neutral masks developed Jacque Copeau
A101AD
28th September
Visual storyboards
Pied Piper – Hamlet – Dark Metaphor
Dark, primal fear of adulthood
Folk tale
No. 1 Introduce world, characters, status quo, some sense of background
Status quo – could be war.
No. 2 Inciting situation
No. 3 What’re the stakes? Progressively worse and worse, conflicts get worse. Rising action.
No. 4 Final Event.
Task for next week
Find a piece of performance
The nature of the teller is important
⁃ Sense of architecture
⁃ Got special interest
⁃ Got mimic element. Depth further up stage
⁃ Intentional moving (?). Intentions weren’t clarified. What’s the atmosphere that should be giving?
⁃ Stay in character (stupid me)
Opening ideas. Evelyn, Gabe and Nurse all enter from different parts of the state, pretending to hold a coat or bag to place it on a coat rack or elsewhere. Hugh is doing morning rituals, waking up, etc. Second opening idea: First shot is whole cast walking into line. Say small anecdotal line about event in play that foreshadows something, but is kept mysterious. After each line, whole cast turns around, speaking in weird language before turning back around with smiles on faces.
The Actor’s Bible 