BTEC Drama

Emily Negative Previously we had only worked with improvising for this scene, so whilst we had some key movements we didn’t really have an understanding of the flow of the conversation. Therefore we decided it would be important to define some set phases of the scenes development for each of the characters.   Emily Jack Stage One Upset Stress Stage Two Avoid Anger Stage Three Anger Ignore   These helped to us to concentrate more on the accurateness of gesture of the mask style, by providing markers to hit throughout the scene. In some ways this reflects some of the things we learnt when looking at the commedia style. In commedia, much of the work is improvised, but small moments and ideas such as gimmies and tricks are already pre-set. In this case each of our stages was an example of on objective which we would have to switch to at different points of ...

Emily Positive We decided that we would flow straight from the club scene into the montage of Jack and Emily’s relationship, helping to separate them through the use of a music and lighting shift into to create a distinction between the two. We thought that a montage would be the best way to show the development of their relationship and build a connection and understanding of their relationship with the audience. By doing this we thought we could make the audience more invested in the relationship so that in the final scene, the argument and ending of the relationship would have more of an effect on the audience. In this way they would be able to empathise more with Jack. We picked out key moments that we could use to make repeating motives, such as the meal and Christmas memories where they both shared a drink together as well as the engagement and the final scene where Emily would give back the ring. Work Positive We wanted to develop Nasifa’s character and also change th...

Today we looked at refining the work scene, as we felt we were missing some of the things we wanted to convey. First of all, we altered the conveyer belt so that instead of using computers, we used paper instead. This allowed us to create a more simplistic paper shuffling movement that we could use to create a beat. The organising of the paper made a much louder and more easily controlled sound than the keyboards, so the repeated sound was more defined which I think helped that sense of monotony we wanted to give the audience. Two of the cast also created a night out scene between the main character Jack and his best friend Dan. The scene had an upbeat and fast paced energy which I think well reflected the chaotic nature of nightlife culture, although I think a few aspects concerning mask technique could have been more defined. For example, sometimes it was difficult to tell what it was they were doing, such as when listening to music on the jukebox. I think this was just a case...