Week 7 Blog ( Week 4 For Scaramouche Jones )

Week 7, Monday 21st-Wednesday 23rd Of October 2013

To begin our forth week in preparation towards our 'Scaramouche Jones' assignment, we started off with a slight change. Two members of our tutor didn't arrive to lesson on time, and it was later reveled to us that these two students had left Btec Level 2 Performing Arts. Therefore leaving only ten members of the group which then resulting with more editing to be made to the script. With certain scenes and dialogue being cut, in order to have a fair amount of time for the performance and have each member of the group to have an equal amount of lines to learn so we all have a fair amount to do. As well as having to split two monologues in the script, which were to be said by these two members who had unfortunately left the course. This resulted in certain members having to say more than one piece of dialogue in the script, which is just like having to learn two monologues.  

 

My part in 'Scaramouche Jones' remained to be the same, this was lucky since I had nearly learnt all of my lines and wasn't a waste of time, unfortunately, for other members of the group, they had to switch lines in the play much to their annoyance as I'd think they spent some time learning their lines also.

     

Once the editing were complete, we continued with the rehearsals. This weeks rehearsal was to simply focus on people who hadn't practiced their lines outside the rehearsals whilst they were on stage, and also to explore the dialogue more in-depth to see how we could present the chorus effectively. Alongside this was that the members of the chorus had to be focusing more into the use of movement and speech whilst performing. After observing a chorus at work in a video footage we watched, in which they had a lot more use of speech and movement, we decided to experiment on certain lines in the script. These lines were said and we all would have a group discussion on whether we should highlight this line through use of speech with a silent whisper, also the use of movement was to be used a lot more in certain lines spoken, such as the use of physically which was to change the actor playing Scaramouche Jones' position on stage; moving him from front center stage to back center stage more often than standing still and giving lines, which would be boring in front of an audience.

 

Sadly this whole week was taken over by a huge amount of editing to the script and more rehearsing to ensure each member of the group would be able to give the best performance possible.  Whether they are on stage representing Scaramouche Jones or playing as part of the chorus. Along with looking at how to highlight their individual personality's to show the audience that the chorus is just like the characters inner clown and presenting his/her's thoughts and feelings.  As well as looking at how Scarmouches' dialogue is more interesting and intriguing to the chorus, which will catch the audiences attention. This week was helpful as with the constant rehearsals, it will insure that we are all fully prepared and organized for our main performance in November.