Monday, 17 November 2014
One to ones with Kim singing
Myself and Kim have practised the Witches Rap . We will be going through Stay With Me aswell. The Witches Rap I find has really hard music becuacause you have to fit your words into a certian amount of beats otherwise the whole song will be out of sink. For example there are 12 beats at the begging of the song before I come in . In thoes 12 beats I have to fit in my dialogue in. We also worked on breath conrtol. Its important to know when to breathe in this song becuase there is alot to sing and not alot of time to fit it in. We decedie the places where I need to bretahe and into total for the first verse I breathe 3 times. Control of breath is also inmportant becasue you want to be able to reach the heights of important notes. I have also foccused on charaterisation througth the song. Its a song full of impact therefore I feel the Witch needs to be up in the audineces face. She is there to tell everyone that she means buisness and I need to show that through the short punchy lyrics.
Stay With Me Into The Woods solo work with Kat
Stay With Me
For my song 'stay with me' there isnt really a dance however there needs to be movment and interaction between the Witch and Rapunzel. I thought about some of the Witches stage directions and what her personas semantic feild involves. The stage directions for the song 'tender but intence' gave me the idea of reaching out to Rapunzel yet trying to scare her. For example on the line "Princes yes but wolves and humans too" the Witch creeps up on Rapzunzel with her fingers bent like claws. This shows depth to the song putting empathis on certain words gives impact and makes it ineresting watch .
Into The Woods Dance with Kat
Into The Woods Intro Dance
So far for into the woods we have created a marching sequence and auidence partisapation.
Its all based around box steps and we also had to create a 8 step dance step of our own. If our 8 step dance fitted in with the march we could actually use it in the dance. I created a dance where you would march looking forward for 2 steps then 2 spets croached down then 1 step you put your hand on your leg then the other for the next step . In the last 2 step you would go from looking down to looking up at the audience . I think it was quite simple yet effective. It gave impact and a sence of argency that is show throughout Into The Woods.
The Witch isnt actually in this dance but it was important to take part in the dance as it is a contribution to the production , also it is nice to have an understanding of what
the others where working on . It also gave me a chance to put my ideas forward and have a say in how the dance looked and what need to be worked on.
So far for into the woods we have created a marching sequence and auidence partisapation.
Its all based around box steps and we also had to create a 8 step dance step of our own. If our 8 step dance fitted in with the march we could actually use it in the dance. I created a dance where you would march looking forward for 2 steps then 2 spets croached down then 1 step you put your hand on your leg then the other for the next step . In the last 2 step you would go from looking down to looking up at the audience . I think it was quite simple yet effective. It gave impact and a sence of argency that is show throughout Into The Woods.
The Witch isnt actually in this dance but it was important to take part in the dance as it is a contribution to the production , also it is nice to have an understanding of what
the others where working on . It also gave me a chance to put my ideas forward and have a say in how the dance looked and what need to be worked on.
Monday, 10 November 2014
Black History Rehearsal Evaluation
For rehearsals my self Holly and Luke would often use an empty class room. At first we found it hard to deliver an emotional piece , and learning lines was a struggle . We wanted to distribute the right lines in the right emotional way. So in rehearsals we deiced Luke would portray the bird ( metaphorical slave) and myself and holly would be the narrators telling the harsh story in an aggressive way ( metaphorical slave owners).
Rehearsals were very useful . We would discuss together about where on stage we thought it would best to start and finish , how to make a bigger impact and to get other opinions on how it looked we asked other peers to watch it (Katie and Jenifer).
Rehearsal Evaluation Into The Woods
Lesson 1
In lesson one we started reading through the script and having ago at our lines and listening to our songs.I managed to get an idea of how I wanted the witch to sound just from reading through her lines and stage directions. I learnt very quickly that she was an edgey , cunning charter. For example some of her stage directions give you an idea of how she would act and be portrayed (getting worked up), (THROWING spell) , (yelling), (tender but intense).
In lesson one we started reading through the script and having ago at our lines and listening to our songs.I managed to get an idea of how I wanted the witch to sound just from reading through her lines and stage directions. I learnt very quickly that she was an edgey , cunning charter. For example some of her stage directions give you an idea of how she would act and be portrayed (getting worked up), (THROWING spell) , (yelling), (tender but intense).
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