lesson 3

25th September 2014

As usual we started of by doing a warm up. Starting with body, we stretched and moved our mouths, imagining we were chewing gum. By warming up our body it helps us go from ourselves to our character more easily. Then we moved to our voice warmups, we worked on projection and articulation. We need to do this at the beginning so that when we go to rehearse we can make sure were loud enough but not shouting. And also so that the audience can understand what were saying. We after worked on breath control, this is important because we need to be able to say a whole sentence without stopping and have enough energy to do a whole performance. 

After the warmup we worked on the sex scene. In this scene we are using the whole class. We each say a line from the script. This is a better way of performing this scene than just having 2 people, because it won't be that awkward for us and the parents watching, but also its a lot more effective and looks a lot better and interesting. We are still trying to get the order right, everyone is getting confused but I think were get it soon, we just need practise.

What I found really fun was the Rugby chant (Hacker) exercise. It involved us making up a chant in groups and going opposite another group and shouting it at each other. I really liked it because we got to work as a team and have a laugh in class. But it did have some reflection to the play. Naughts and Crosses are 2 different groups and are against each other, so by doing the chant it made us think that even though Sephy and Callum are friends they are on 2 different sides of a war. 

For the rest of the lesson we worked on our scenes. I have achieved my target of learning my lines and staging it. I think the main target now is to really get the characters emotions into the scene and show how much they love each other and how scared they are. Because in this play Sephy and Callum can never feel safe or protected, through their whole lives they have been trapped in a society that won't let them be together. In this scene I think they finally realise how dangerous and scary the world they live in is. And what I want to do is show that fear and realisation of the world they come from. Because from this scene after they live their lives knowing this divide and the real horror it actually is.