Directing

This week, we’ve look at several things, first about how to do an analysis and the steps for it, this is important as we are doing out research and it needs to have lots of analysis in order to get top grades. In the workshop we continue doing masks, but other kids were helping too and it didn’t work as bad as I thought it was going to be like.

Also for the first time this year, we did warm up in class, it was very difficult as we needed a lot of concentration, which is the same as you need for acting, so it is very important for an actor to do the warm up, not only to concentrate but to get full of energy and get ready to act. I found this really difficult the first day we did it but the second one was quiet easier as we already know what was going to happen and therefore we got ready for it.

What I enjoy the most this week was directing scene 9 for the school play, even though they gave me very little information to start building the scene, I managed to do quite a lot, and at least from my point of view it wasn’t that bad. The scene was about ghost, so we needed to explore the character; we walked like ghost for 5 min to get an idea of it and to see what looks good and what doesn’t work. Then we come up with a special type of ghost which I think it worked as it is not as the normal prototype ghost but a new one. It was very difficult to keep order as they were kids from form 1 and even though they are from upper school, they were often distracted. Somehow I manage to do the scene with some dialogues and some techniques like: still picture and chorus. I think we need to work a lot in the scene but up to know it is moving on. What worries me, is that, if I took 2 hours to do a little scene, and we still need to work on it, would it take that much with the other scenes? And what about the younger kids ones?, would they be distracted?, Would we have time?