Wednesday the 11th went really well and things are begining to really shape up, one group worked on the big scenes while i took a smaller group and worked on there specific lines pulling out funny things as well as helping them to understand shakespeare a bit more.
i started to do this by a few improv games where they had to use shakespeare words in response to the other character, this seemed to work really well.
Sadly i was ill on monday and couldnt make it :( (dam my cold) BUT i was well and rearing to go on Wednesday.
this Wednesday we worked on a few of the smaller scenes i warmed everyone up with a few warm up games and then a few concentration games to get everyone focused. the accents of a lot of the characters are coming on well and we have had a few role changes (so fingers crossed they will learn their new lines in time)
But all in all everything is ticking along nicely 10 more rehersals to go till the tech rehersals though!
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Monday Rehersals
Monday rehersals went well and the scenes are shaping up really well,
I started by doing a warm up exercise to get the children focused, it used walking in sync as well as a new game one of the kids suggested (which i enjoyed so much ive remebered it for next time)
i helped to direct one of the opening scenes and one of my points about the three characters realising the other character is at the other side of the stage would be more funny if they all turned one by one, seened to work really well and we are now using.
On review,i also think we should try replacing the wine with perhaps a drink like umbongo, but i will bring this up next time we do the scene.
All in all its getting there!
I started by doing a warm up exercise to get the children focused, it used walking in sync as well as a new game one of the kids suggested (which i enjoyed so much ive remebered it for next time)
i helped to direct one of the opening scenes and one of my points about the three characters realising the other character is at the other side of the stage would be more funny if they all turned one by one, seened to work really well and we are now using.
On review,i also think we should try replacing the wine with perhaps a drink like umbongo, but i will bring this up next time we do the scene.
All in all its getting there!
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Holidays over!
The summer holidays are over and so are the big rehersals,
me and Miss eastwood have done a lot of work on the big end scene, and i have coreographed a large section of it, we started with warm up exercises which got the children to work in teams and then we used the game grandmothers footsteps to find interesting and funny ways for the kids to stand as they approach the front of the stage.
my other job of finding music has come along well, the first rehersal in the holiday, saw me try songs such as the Maryln Manson cover of "sweet dreams" to jux oppose the funny events that are taking place. this idea of jux opose worked well however, that particular song was a little to dark for what we are trying to achieve. we then tried it the other way round with the kids bhaving them do more violent moves while there was silly music on but this created too much of an eerie effect.
at the second rehersal we tried a few songs and we have finally found it, it is Omen by the badn Prodegy and can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGUcwNNu5g
Another activity we tried, was breaking down the shakespearian words so that the kdis understand what they are actually saying, this was achieved by saying the shakespearian word and then asking the kdis tot hink of a modern day way of saying it. this worked really well and helped the kids to really get an understanding of what the words mean. i decided to try and make a short scene with this and make it funny by having the kids talking through text and text speak. this was very funny, but also worked incrediabally well so much so that we have decided to use mobiles in the production.
we are doubling up rehersalsd now, on Mondays and Wednesdays so full steam ahead!
also we have the exiting workshop with the royal shakespeare company coming up soon as well!
me and Miss eastwood have done a lot of work on the big end scene, and i have coreographed a large section of it, we started with warm up exercises which got the children to work in teams and then we used the game grandmothers footsteps to find interesting and funny ways for the kids to stand as they approach the front of the stage.
my other job of finding music has come along well, the first rehersal in the holiday, saw me try songs such as the Maryln Manson cover of "sweet dreams" to jux oppose the funny events that are taking place. this idea of jux opose worked well however, that particular song was a little to dark for what we are trying to achieve. we then tried it the other way round with the kids bhaving them do more violent moves while there was silly music on but this created too much of an eerie effect.
at the second rehersal we tried a few songs and we have finally found it, it is Omen by the badn Prodegy and can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGUcwNNu5g
Another activity we tried, was breaking down the shakespearian words so that the kdis understand what they are actually saying, this was achieved by saying the shakespearian word and then asking the kdis tot hink of a modern day way of saying it. this worked really well and helped the kids to really get an understanding of what the words mean. i decided to try and make a short scene with this and make it funny by having the kids talking through text and text speak. this was very funny, but also worked incrediabally well so much so that we have decided to use mobiles in the production.
we are doubling up rehersalsd now, on Mondays and Wednesdays so full steam ahead!
also we have the exiting workshop with the royal shakespeare company coming up soon as well!
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