After half term...!

Welcome back after half term - I hope you had a good rest but have come back refreshed to continue with your rehearsals and devising process for your Unit 3 Performance!

This week, I would like you to focus your blog (SWED material) around Q.1:

How is the initial material being researched and developed at significant stages during the process of creating drama?

 

Treat this week as a "significant stage of the process" of you creating your piece of drama - as you are now into the 2nd phase of rehearsals after half term.

 

Happy blogging!

19th October - Monday rehearsal

Today you will be having your usual Production Meeting with me, followed by rehearsing a scene/short phrase that will be filmed by Ms Head and Ms Cullum, ready for instant feedback and exploration.
Use this experience to help further develop your work - remember - use any constructive criticism to help you focus your work and progress - an objective view can often be the most beneificial!

This week - I would like you to focus your blog on Q2 from the SWED - 

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Obviously if any other areas are worthy of note then please 'blog away'!

"How effectively are you personally exploring and developing your role(s)? "

Monday 10th October Rehearsal

Remember - this unit focuses on a group production in response to either:

a stimulus material, themes, ideas, issues – ie: your inspirational day or the workshops that led from this – you need to make this link clear in your SWED…. eg: how you arrived from one to the other.

 

Continue to blog this week focussing your writing around Q's 1, 2, 3.

I will be commenting on your blogs so far after this Thursday's lesson, to give you a good chance to develop your ideas and then write about them.

Happy blogging!

Thursday 6th October - 1st rehearsal from initial starting points!

You have now completed your 1st rehearsal stemmed from each group's decision of your initial starting points...

Group 1

•Maddy, Chloe, Nicola, Alannah

(initial starting point…holocaust / confessional box / links…)

Group 2

•David, Maria, Emily

(Lives in and out of work / theatre co.? / triangles…)

 

 

We will be exploring the crucial elements to devising:

•Plot/story

•Characters

•Form

•Structure

•Visual

•Aural

•Spatial elements ie design, intended impact on audience (emotional, sensory, intellectual),

•Target audience

 

For your blog this week - I would like you to consider the following 3 related questions (if applicable to your rehearsals:

 

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How did you and your group explore the possibilities of form, structure and performance style? How effectively are you personally exploring and developing your role(s)? How is the initial material being researched and developed at significant stages during the process of creating drama?

Frantic Workshop - see below...

Consider what you explored in the Frantic Workshop…

Could any ideas be developed into your work

eg: gestural strings? Movement concepts? Music impact? Visual impact?

How useful was the workshop to your devising process?

Q.4 How did the work of established and recognised theatre practitioners, and/or the work of live theatre, influence the way in which your devised response developed?