Scenario/Introduction:
For this ninth entry for the fourth week on this assignment, I'll be covering both the Strengths and Weaknesses that came out of the session. They will both be covering the whole group as this is a collaborative process that must be evaluated constantly to hopefully improve once the performance date is near.
The Strengths:
Strength 1 - Deciding The Style Of Physical Theatre To Work With: After many trails and errors with nearly all Physical Theatre practitioners that we've studied on this course not working very well with our game show idea, other than Frantic Assemblies, we have a now official style of Physical Theatre that we want to follow for our performance of ''The Bridge'. As I'd mentioned in the blog for this session, we'll be combining the inspiration we had gained from 2 very different Physical styles: Frantic Assembly with it's playful, intelligent, vivic and dynamic theatre along with Steven Berkoff which comes with a more grotesque, melodramatic, clockwork piece. I think that these 2 styles of Physical Theatre work very well with each other since we can work with both slow, clockwork like movement (Berkoff) to then transition into fast paced movement (Frantic). This is something which I feel will be most prominent for the final game of the show, being the escape from 'The Bridge'. We've planned to have a countdown timer which lasts for 45 seconds so we can use the clockwork movement to start off with to then quickly change into more fast paced movement once the timer reaches near zero. This is a theatre device which I think works very well and I'm sure it'll be a good thing to include to hopefully improve our grades for this assignment.
Strength 2 - Beginning To Refine Our Devised Piece: As I'd previously mentioned in the blog for this session, we had done some refinement for the Obstacle Course and the intro within our performance. We had added the use of bamboo sticks to create a more imaginative obstacle instead of using our bodies, which would just make it hard for the audience to see what's going on. We also came up with a theme tune to start off 'The Bridge' with. The song is one that is commonly heard at a circus and I felt that it matches the overall concept of 'The Bridge' effectively since it's a dangerous show which involves risks, much like a circus in reality.
Strength 3 - Creating Effective Characters For 'The Bridge': In this session, we had began work on our individual characters for our performance of 'The Bridge'. The characters mostly seemed to match our own personalities but that doesn't really matter in my opinion since this is meant to be a more physical theatre performance and if we know how to act as a certain personality, it'll be easier to conduct physical theatre with things such as gesture, stances, expressions and reactions. The Hot Seating session was also a good idea just to get us more in-sync with our characters.
The Weaknesses:
Weakness 1 - Lack Of Focus From Some Members: Unfortunately, the streak of 'No Weaknesses' has ended due to this weeks session. Sadly Milo and Jake and a little from Brandon had seemed to have a lack of focus during the session, especially during the Hot Seating portion. I saw them not being very serious about their character and just took it as a joke instead. The fact that we had spent a very long time trying to do one simple thing just left me frustrated but we had still achieved what we needed by the end of the session.
What Did I Think Of The Session Overall?
For a rating out of 10, I'd give this week a 10/10. I say this because we have now gotten a pretty good idea as to what our performance structure is going to consist of. When we have the addition of character monologues, I'll make a structure plan which details what goes where and a rough idea as to how long it lasts and hopefully it'll reach the 20-25 minute mark as we need that for our performance when following the assignment brief as that is required in order to pass.
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