evaluation

So the show was last thursday and it actually went alright. Over all i feel that the performance was good and apart from a few mistakes went really well. The day started with us helping out with seating and lighting. This was alright and it helped me visualise the stage so i could get an understanding of how i will be able to move on the stage. However when the whole group got there things started to get bad. First we needed to do lighting and seeing as my scene was first we done my lighting first. My lighting was fairly simple i had a follow spot and one set spotlight. However other people in the group wanted different lights and such so it took a while to have it all set up. When we started to rehearse, we realised we had never scene jakes or jays scene and we never rehearsed the final scene so we decided to storm through the show to get to these points, the first scenes went perfectly during rehearsal and we got the whole thing done however the final scene didn't go very well as when we were able to rehearse it, we didn't have jay and he was a key person in it. We decided to try and rehearse without him but it didn't go very well as i needed him to know when i had to run to the other side. People started to get stressed so we decided to take a 10 minute break to cool down. after the break the scene went fine and we were ready for the show. Now our group was performing last so whilst i sat watching the other groups my nerves started to build up as i realised how big the audience was. When it was our turn to perform we set up the mats and got ready. Now my scene went fine, people laughed at all the right points and i didn't get choked on any words so my scene went as well as it could have. Liam's scene also went fine, nothing went wrong and everything was fine. But then we go to Amandas scene. Liam was in the wrong place for the bed which caused jake to be in the wrong place and he had to do limas part which he didn't know. This was the first of the mistakes. Now we get to Danny's scene. The tech crew got his song wrong which wasn't a mistake as such on our part and it didn't affect our performance as a whole but i feel it was something that went wrong and Danny may have been put of by this so he may not have done his monologue as well as he had hoped. Now Jake, Jays and Connors scenes all went well enough, i feel it was the final scene that had the biggest mistake. When Jay snatched the 'bomb' from Danny ' love is blindness' was support to play but it didn't at first. This was very annoying as we stood there for about 10 seconds waiting for it to play as when it did we threw jay in the air and the scene continued but as it didn't we just stood there looking shocked. Apart from that small error the rest of the scene went really well and seeing as we kept messing up in rehearsal, we did really well. Now the final little mistake as at the final scene when we are all laying down on the floor dead. I had to cough really bad and held it in meaning i was breathing really heavily, i could also hear a who ever was next to me breathing through there nose but i don't know if the audience could also. Over all i feel that the show went really well. i am pleased with the result of our devising and i really did enjoy my monologue. I am a little upset its over but after the last 3 weeks of us all being at each others throats i am glad it is.

4th February

Todays lesson went really well. I do believe we got a lot of work done as we managed to get to Amandas scene, which means today was our first attempt at a proper run through. I am really confident in my monologue now and i am very proud of how it goes and how it went seeing as how it was the first time i done it, in about 2 months. I am really looking forward to perfuming on thursday but i am getting a bit nervous but i feel confident that we will pull it off. after school we rehearsed my scene a little bit more and tried to get the song set due to people no thinking it worked with my character which i was happy about as i felt it didn't either so it worked out for the best. After about 7 re runs of my monologue we finally got set on a song and i am confident it will work for the scene. i am really looking forward to performing in a few days and on thursday we are having a full day run through so we should be ready by the time we perform.

24th january

I really enjoyed todays lesson at first we decided on technical stuff. for my scene i want a black out then the song ' do me a favour ' by the arctic monkeys to play. Then i am going to have lights turn on as i walk to them, for example a light on my desk will form when i walk to it and lights will go on amanda and danny when i go to them. For sounds i want to have sounds of the street at a certain point in my scene to show the audience that I've gone outside. After we decided on technical stuff we done the first scene and added on this bit where we throw jay up into the air and let him fall to the ground then we run from the side to side running from the bomb. Overall i think todays lesson was a great success overall and i am looking forward to performing it.

friday 10th jan just before lessons

today i want to work on my monologue a bit more, my scene has been changed slightly to include other people so that i am not on stage for 5 or so minutes just talking to myself. Danny and amanda play my parents. Connor plays someone who wants a lone. Liam plays the '50 year old oxford street big shot' and Jay plays the ' 40 year old fat ass ' on the subway station. I am really proud of how fast i have learnt my monologue. i already know it but i like to still have it in my hands because i start to choke on the words as my character speaks quite fast and in an accent. Last lesson was very enjoyable as we decided to rehearse the first scene which i found very useful as we hadn't done it in a while and i had started to forget it. i am really looking forward to todays lessons and i can't wait until the day we perform these pieces which is in about 3 or so weeks.

Changing my scene

Over the winter break i have decided i want to change my scene. After trying to come up with a good scene for the idea i had about the guitarist i decided that i dont want this to be my scene as i had to come up with the idea in about 5 minutes so it was not very well thought out. Over the holidays i talked to my older brother and he helped me come up with a scene. After about 5 days we had finished the script/monologue. My monologue is about a bank employee from new jersey who live in london and hates his perents because of his first name 'Rich' he feels this is the cause of all thinga bad in his life and isnt afraid to express this. For my scene i talk about the day i had before i got onto thw train and how it was 'the day from hell' i really enjoy the speech and i am really looking forward to performing it. The only worry i have is that i may struggle learning it aa it is just over 2 pages long however i already know a fair amount of it so i am confident that i will able to learn the whole speech for the performance date.

the inspiration for my scene

18th december

well todays lesson didn't go to plan… Connor said in lesson all of a sudden that he didn't like our idea, which is fair enough as it didn't go very well when we done it in front of class. we sat around for about half an hour talking about a new idea for our scene, i thought really hard and came up with an idea about us being two people who robbed a shop and stashed the money in the underground but Connor didn't like it, so we kept thinking then Jay asked us for an idea and Connor said that he wanted to do an scene on his own, which kinda sucks because all the ideas i just made were for two people so when he said he wanted to do one on his own it sorter screwed all my ideas up. so i thought for about 5 minutes about an idea and i came up with this idea where i am an aspiring musician whose father does not believe i his son has the talent to make it and is going to throw away his life by dropping out of school just before he graduates. When i got home i kept thinking about a good idea I thought about somehow using the song 'BULLET' by hollywood undead as inspiration and use it in my scene. i want to lay down on a mattress whilst the song plays and have someone and Amanda doing standard household things around me as if it was fast forwarding through my life. i want my character to be a bit troubled not be able to accomplish anything in life. then i will get up and grab my guitar bag and go to walk out the door but get stopped by who ever plays my dad and he is going to ask ' where do you think you are going' i then want to have an argument about how he should know and how I've told him time after time that on whatever day say tuesdays that i have band practice and how he never listens to me, then he is going to say something about how if i spent half the time i spend on a worthless dream on my school work i would be someone. i will then storm out and go to the underground where i get on the train and die in the bomb. this is a working idea at the moment and i will try to map it out over the holidays.