In todays lesson we had the challenge of blocking some scenes ourselves with the occasional guidance of our main director Kim. At first I was unsure of this idea as I had never done this kind of approach with a large group of people and therefore was sceptical of whether it would work effectively. Knowing from past experiences I realise that some people are more comfortable with raising their opinion than others and can often get carried away. However, I was also excited to hear what ideas people had and to see how we would all work together when giving eachother directorial advice.
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I believe all in all it went very well and it was nice to see peoples perspectives and combinging ideas to create a different outlook to a scene. It was also effective as we would take everyones ideas into consideration and potentially run the scene a few times trying out other ideas to see which ones work well.
This was also good as it meant as actors we started to get a real feel for the scene and an understanding to how it ran and also potentially understanding character relationships when we blocked the scenes. For example, I understood that my character was sarcastic and fairly cruel when she was talking to 'Joe' meaning that she was a more harsh character than I originally thought.
I managed to contribute an idea towards the end of the session as i felt an idea that was mentioned could potentially take away the main impact of a particular moment in a scene. i.e Someone suggested that when Joe is in the process of being arrested that multiple officers from all directions come towards him. I then suggested that we didn't need that many officers or if we did we needed to move them from being infront of 'Joe' as it would take away the moment of when 'Joe' punches the police officer. And decrease the intense atmosphere it was in the process of creating. I suggested this as I felt people were getting lost in the moment of trying to make it their own as about 5 people were trying to talk at once and therefore making the scene far more complicated than it needed to be.
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I think it would be good if potentially people were called upon to suggest ideas for a scene to make sure that opportunities aren't being missed to discover and try out things that some people may not be so confident to vocalise.
I personally need to vocalise my ideas more often when i have them, even if they don't get used in the end. I also need to write down important pieces of blocking information in my script so if someone isn't here who is in that scene we can all understand how it was supposed to be if they were there.
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