Lecturer: Gavin Maxwell
Lesson Two
Today, we continued blocking Alibaba. I loved how we were using the sticks as horses and swords, and making sound affects with them, like we did in the prologue last lesson. I also really like how its all coming together now.
However, it was a very unfocused rehearsal, because we got fidgety and restless, again.
In order to make the show the best it can be, we need to disaplin ourselves, and in some cases each other, a lot more.
That is my, and our target for future rehearsals. Again, I think my strength was contributing good ideas.
Why did you like using the sticks in this way? What effect do you think it will have from an audience perspective. Overall what did the sticks help us achieve?
ReplyDeleteI like using the sticks for sound effects because it helped set an atmosphere as a performer and I thought they would make it easier for the audience to understand the scene. It was hard for me to believe I was on a horse until I could hear the hooves. Therefore, when the sticks represented this stimulus I was able to believe more.
ReplyDeleteAesthetically, the consistency of the sticks helped us to link all the scenes and create the world as a whole. Rather than having lots of specific props, just having sticks made the sourcing easier but also promoted the use of imagination for both performers and audience. We could have played the "What is this prop?" game in early rehearsals to help us imagine all the different possibilities for these objects and others.