On Monday 4th November we watched the videos that Rob took of our haunted houses performances and shenagh gave each group improvements. For my group we had to make the last scene very clear as she didn’t understand. We then had to do Scene break down for silent movie.
Scene 1 - Setting / friend’s house 4 friends are playing the Ouija board and we ask 2 questions. This is how we did ours:
1. Are there any spirts with us?
2. Is something bad going to happen today?
And the answer to each question was “yes”. We then stop playing.
Scene 2 - Fun fair at the fun fair we decide to see the fortune teller. Ashleigh asks about her future, she is told that she will die in the haunted house. He then says if you chose to go in do not look at the blue light or else.
Scene 3 - See the haunted house We decide to go to the haunted house, but Ashleigh does not want to enter because she’s afraid of what the fortune teller told her. But we convince her to go in.
Scene 4 - Inside the haunted house When they walk in one of the friends looks directly at the blue light that she was told not to look at, she then becomes hypnotised and unable to move, the other friend comes in front and looks at her trying to help her when told not to, then she becomes hypnotised after the first one. The friend that came out the hypnosis stood there in confusion. Whilst one of the friends tries to help the hypnotised friend. While helping the hypnotised friend she accidentally looked at her and fell into a deep sleep. After falling into a deep sleep all her friends went back to normal and were extremely worried about the friend that had fallen asleep and tried to wake her up. Whilst trying to wake the friend up the fortune teller appeared and told them that they were wrong to come to the house and they shouldn’t have come and explain that he wants everyone’s soul as he had already take the friend who had fallen into a deep sleep. One of the friends runs away to start up the car and the two friends left in the house started to argue about if they should leave the hypnotised friend or to run away and leave.
Scene 5 – Car - The 2 friends run out of the house and jump straight into the car; the fortune teller sends the hypnotised friend to go and get the 3 friends.
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| Our story board |
We then had to do a story board for the people who will be doing the editing and filming for our short film.
Things that went well in today’s lesson:
1. Me and my group worked as a team
2. Our rehearsals went well
On Tuesday 5th I went to see Hamilton the musical with college. It was an amazing experience to watch because even though it was a true story, the director and cast made the performance funny and sad.
The emotional scenes:
1. Hamilton’s wife Eliza finds out that he cheated on her
2. When Hamilton’s son Philip dies
3. Hamilton's death
After watching the performance we were able to meet the cast and do a Q&A. One of the questions was:
“ what advice would you give to a young person who wants to go into musical theatre?”
And the cast replied with:
“ don’t give up. Look at your self in the mirror and tell your self that you are important. But make sure whilst chasing your dreams you have a side job”
On Tuesday 5th I went to see Hamilton the musical with college. It was an amazing experience to watch because even though it was a true story, the director and cast made the performance funny and sad.
The emotional scenes:
1. Hamilton’s wife Eliza finds out that he cheated on her
2. When Hamilton’s son Philip dies 3. Hamilton's death
After watching the performance we were able to meet the cast and do a Q&A. One of the questions was:
“ what advice would you give to a young person who wants to go into musical theatre?”
And the cast replied with:
“ don’t give up. Look at your self in the mirror and tell your self that you are important. But make sure whilst chasing your dreams you have a side job”
This was very inspiring because experienced actors believed in young people like me who want to go down the same path of acting like them. All the actors had amazing voices, but I got goose bumps when Eliza Hamilton (Rachelle Ann Go) and Angelica Schuyler (Allyson Ava-Brown) sang together and did their solos as I have never heard singers perform like that before.
On Thursday 7th we rehearsed our performance for our silent film. Rob put two chairs on opposite sides of each other to show how much space we have. Rob placed a chair where the rest of the class were sitting to show where the camera was. This will make us aware of how much space we have. We made a few changes: Instead of myself and Hanna having a long conversation with Mark we would have a 3 line conversation and then run away. We would film Mark and Ashleigh’s faces. Mark would be filmed pointing at myself, Hanna and Louis for Ashleigh to catch us. These changes made our performance better because we were able to put more effort into our acting skills. This was able to make our film better because it was shorter and not so long. Rob was really able to help us improve by directing us.
We also talked about the props we needed:
1. A football
2. Tin foil
On Thursday 7th we rehearsed our performance for our silent film. Rob put two chairs on opposite sides of each other to show how much space we have. Rob placed a chair where the rest of the class were sitting to show where the camera was. This will make us aware of how much space we have. We made a few changes: Instead of myself and Hanna having a long conversation with Mark we would have a 3 line conversation and then run away. We would film Mark and Ashleigh’s faces. Mark would be filmed pointing at myself, Hanna and Louis for Ashleigh to catch us. These changes made our performance better because we were able to put more effort into our acting skills. This was able to make our film better because it was shorter and not so long. Rob was really able to help us improve by directing us.
We also talked about the props we needed:
1. A football
2. Tin foil