27/11/2015

Today's lesson we went through our scenes in order and got some feedback from our teacher. We was told that we need use more characterisation, to make our character have more meaning and make them realistic. We was also told that we need to make the last scene when the daughter character gets killed by the mum character much more effective because it is the highest climax in the play. For next lesson we need to start to carry on going through the whole play and give ideas to make them better.

24/11/2015

We as a group wrote down our strengths and the developments we needed to do this lesson. One of our strengths was the structure of our story so it was clearly set out. One of the development was to do our transitions. So this lesson we started to develop some of our developments we wrote down. We looked at the transitions, we got Taio's character as the psychologist to make our transitions look more flow to the next scene. We also started to think about having blackouts and lightings. We had to think about the chairs and how we would move the chairs according to the scenes, so we had 1 or 2 people who was in the scene at the end would change the chairs. Our aim for next lesson is to carry on developing the scenes in order.

19/11/2015

We discussed the strengths and the parts that need to be developed in our piece. Our main aims were to develop the scenes in order and also to do the transitions clearly. The development we done was in the dream scene, when the spirit character pulls the daughter character which is my character I scream to show the fear as a young girl. This would also show tention in the scene. In the babysitting scene my character as the daughter and the aunty character as Jessica needs to use more characterisation. Our aim is to develop three other scenes,

18/11/2015

We put the scenes in order. Some of the idea we had was that Taio's character as the psychologist would be a narrator, which would be giving reflections in some scenes then setting the next scene up. One of our feedback was to make the party scene more fun and exiting as it was boring before. We have developed the daughter see's spirit scene where the sister of the mother character is babysitting her niece and the daughter character see's the spirit. We would need to develop this scene.

16/11/2015

Our aim for this lesson was to structure and add new scenes. We firstly done the scenes in order to make the story clear and know what scene to develop. We added the psychologist which is Tayo's character, she would be leading the scenes, at the end of scenes she would say something then lead it to the next scene which would make the transitions clear. We have all gave ideas to what should be done in the scenes. For our next lesson we would need to clear have a structure of the scenes and know how to use the psychologist as a transitions in the scenes. We need to all give idea because I believe that a lot of us are not participating well enough in the play.

13/11/2015

As we set our aim to structure and go through the play we, we went through all the scenes in detail. We thought that we could have the spirit character in the audience in the beginning for the montage scene which would scare the audience. There was an idea that we would do a scene of a party where we introduce the characters. The feedback we got is that we need to project our vocals,  make our transitions clear, mime properly and also to expand our characters in each scene. This means that our aim for next lesson is to work on the feedback we got for our teacher.

12/11/2015

For today we started to do the cafe scene, I believe that this scene is really good however we need to develop it more by making the scene set up clearer, having the chairs facing the audience. We also produced the argument scene between the mum and dad character, this is prior the cafe scene, as this would lead the dad character to get angry and go to the cafe. After the cafe scene we have also decided to do a scene where the African lady bumps into the mum to let her know what has happened between the gypsy and dad. We set out the scenes we have in the order it will be going in. Today's lesson way very productive because we got a lot of scenes done and we all gave ideas. For our next lesson we need to go over the scenes we have already in order.

11/11/2015

We as a group came up with an idea, myself and three other group members said that we do a scene where the gypsy character gets hypnotised by the spirit character to seduce the father character, so we said we do a cafe scene where this all happens, which then we could use another character of the African women. We said this idea would be good because the spirit is starting to take everything away from the mother, the stuff that she loves the most so she goes mental slowly. Jessica and Bianca gave the idea of the mum finds out that she killed the character John (spirit) is the stepbrother of the character mum and the sister. So we could do a scene showing this. We have had some possible scenes with the sister and mum character, showing them having a fun day out and that everything is normal. We write up the scenes we have so far so it would be clear to what is next. I believe that we was all taking part with giving ideas, but we did not get up and try these ideas out so our aim next lesson would be to try these ideas out.  

06/11/2015

For this lesson we carried on developing and shaping the cinema scene. We looking into the scene to understand the scene, we looked at the purpose of the scene. After we finally developed and shaped the cinema scene we got together and decided where the climax was meant to be in the story. The main hiccup is meant to be around the middle, towards the end of the story this is because this is when the spirits character is at it's strongest point so we need to show this. We have also came up with the idea to do a mental asylum type of scene, where there are 3 mental people on stage, Bianca's and Lenrick/s character as the mum and spirit come on stage go mad to show that the mum character is gone mad, this would be the beginning of the story and the rest of the scene would be a flashback of her life and how it went bad. We have all worked a lot this lesson because we finished developing the cinema scene and we have also gave idea to what is next which is doing the asylum scene.

05/11/2015

For this lesson we started to get on the third stage which is developing and shaping. We decided to develop the cinema scene this lesson so we started to develop the scene by adding sound make it look realistic. We started to explore some idea such as using the sound effects, which I believe made the scene much more real. I believe that this developing and shaping scenes could be used in our other scenes, because it wa an effective way to make the scene better. However, we block each other's ideas when we put ideas across to each other. For next lesson we would carry on developing this scene.

04/11/2015

We had a run through of what we did the previous day of the circus scene. As a group we said that the spirit character needs to be more co-ordinated, and the gypsy needs to be more spooky, have bigger gestures and use more voice skills to make her characters more spooky. We have decided to add another scene which would be the revenge scene where the spirit takes the child away from the mum as a revenge. The spirit character is going to grow power throughout the scenes, he would be weak in the first scene, then get stronger as the scenes go along to the point where he has the power to kill the child. Today we have decided to creating a storyline to make the play make sense so it would be easier for us to understand whats next in the play. Next lesson we are going to pick a specific scene to develop which we decided to do the cinema scene as this was one of the weak scenes we had. 

03/11/2015

We got straight into the circus scene and started to develop it, We decided to make the character John (spirit) is going to be the step broter of the character of the mum. She has bullied him when they were younger and she was also the reason for his death. So we decided to add a part where the gypsy changes seats with the spirit and he tells the character mu why he is haunting her after many years. For this lesson we developed this scene, and also we have a good knowledge to the order of the scenes. The scenes are starting to make sense. Some of us in the group haven't all got characters so we need to make more scenes to add the new characters. 

02/11/2015

These are some of the scenes we have so far. We decided to use the character gypsy. So we started a scene with the mother, child, father and the gypsy. It is in a circus, after the family goes to the circus they leave, as they are leaving the mother see's a gypsy. For this lesson I think that we were productive because we started with the circus scene and we got this scene done with. However, I believe that as a group we talk over each other too much which really effects our ideas and the way we use crucial ideas. We need to develop the circus scene for our next lesson.