On Monday 4th
May, I had a Zoom call with Shenagh and my class this
morning. We read through the script of “Our Day Out”. We went over scenes 1 to 4.
Due to COVID-19 and not being at college, rehearsing from home by computer or
phone can cause problems. One of the difficulties that arose in today’s lesson was
not being able to follow the script smoothly, people had to be told when it was
their line. I found it frustrating because I have been practicing my lines every
day and I concentrate during the lesson. Shenagh suggested to the class that
they should get familiar with the script for next lesson so we can get through
more scenes and bring the play to life.
On Tuesday 5th
May, myself and the class rehearsed the script of “Our
Day Out” with Chris, our TA this morning. Once again, I found it frustrating
because the class was not focused, people still had to be told when it was
their line. However, Chris decided it would be a good idea to discuss how each
scene went after reading our lines. We all agreed that we need to make the
lines flow and be more enthusiastic. Hopefully, these tips and suggestions will
be used in the next lesson. Reading through scenes 2 and 4 more than once, helped
make the lines flow which shows we really need to concentrate. By the end of
the lesson we had gone over scenes 1 to 5.
I read through
my lines and wrote annotations on how I would perform them. For example, on the
line “make sure we don’t enjoy ourselves” I would say this in a disappointed
tone after discovering Briggs is joining them on the school trip as Susan and
the class will not be able to have a fun day out.
Unit 9 – “Production
Value”
I have decided
to do the set design for the coach in scene 5 for the play “Our Day Out”. I
would have rows of seats with two on each side with an aisle in between. The passenger
seats would be in red fabric. The backdrop would have the view from the back
window of the coach for example if there was traffic behind them you would see
cars. There would be one single chair at the front of the stage for the driver,
this chair would be in brown leather. For the sides of the coach I would use
wood as the frame and paint it brown with acrylic panels as the windows. By the side of the coach there would be a chair
to symbolise a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.
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| Acrylic panels |
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| Coach drivers seat |
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| example of how my coach will look |
On Thursday 7th May, myself
and the class rehearsed the script of “Our Day Out” with Rob this morning. We
read from scenes 6-31. Today was an improvement because everyone was able to concentrate,
however there were times when we had to repeat scenes because some people did not
read their lines on time and Rob had to give direction. I read the lines of “Girl
1” in the zoo scene, when performing I behaved like a stroppy teenager from her
first line. “How do you know? Sir’s just told y’ hasn’t he?” I have been
thinking about how different rehearsals have been since lockdown. If we were at
college, we would be standing around each other but now we are rehearsing on
camera, I find this difficult because sometimes there are delays with people’s
connection on the internet. I feel I am using more facial expressions which is a
good thing because we are on camera however our movements are limited which
makes it hard to show how our characters act.
