Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Rehearsal: 27/09/12
We had a lesson and a longer, after school rehearsal today, where we continued on the montages. In the lesson, we worked on our appalling stage combat skills (leading to numerous injuries) and eventually choreographed the playground fight scene. At this point we had 3 montage moments/scenes mapped out:
- Liesel wakes up
- The classroom
- The fight
In the post-school rehearsal, we continued 'montage-ing' and mapped out the scenes of:
- The 1st book stealing
- Liesel and Rudy's race
- Liesel and Rudy cloud watching
Rehearsal Lesson: 26/9/12
Today was a typical rehearsal lesson. we all brought in stimuli, mainly photos of the 1940s German Education System or the Nazi Book Burnings, and there was also a video entitled Hitler's Children: Seduction, highlighting hiw Hitler brainwashed the children of Germany in his years in power.
Practically, we re-created the classroom scene using a naturalistic style, which then stylisticly cut into the next scene of Liesel and Ludwig fighting in the playground.
Practically, we re-created the classroom scene using a naturalistic style, which then stylisticly cut into the next scene of Liesel and Ludwig fighting in the playground.
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Monday, 24 September 2012
24/09/12 Planning lesson and rehearsal
Today we made a timeline for 'The Book Thief', starting now and ending on Thursday 14th March 2013- the performance date.
We also went through our whole piece so far with the teacher verbally, and it was at this point that we realised we needed to do some practical stuff quickly.
Cue afternoon rehearsal...
We did surprisingly well considering there were only 4 of us. We worked on the Hans/Liesel scene leading up until Liesel's first day of school, and came to the conclusion Josh is good at Hans, Sanna is good at Liesel, Nikki is good as Rudy and I am good at narration. So all in all, a good rehearsal, exploring character's and developing the plot line :)
Fin.
We also went through our whole piece so far with the teacher verbally, and it was at this point that we realised we needed to do some practical stuff quickly.
Cue afternoon rehearsal...
We did surprisingly well considering there were only 4 of us. We worked on the Hans/Liesel scene leading up until Liesel's first day of school, and came to the conclusion Josh is good at Hans, Sanna is good at Liesel, Nikki is good as Rudy and I am good at narration. So all in all, a good rehearsal, exploring character's and developing the plot line :)
Fin.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
18/09/12 First Active Lesson
First lesson where we actually moved from our seats today. Had our 1st out-of-lesson rehearsal in which we fine-tuned the plot line and started throwing ideas around for specific moments. We had a really nice outline for the book-burning scene, but we have been warned by the teacher to keep details to a minimum at the moment.
In the actual lesson, we discussed using a montage of short scenes to show Liesel and Rudy's relationship developing throughout the play, which will ultimately make the ending more heart-wrenching/depressing for the audience. We picked out 13 moments in the book for the montage, and then we decided to improvise the 1st one, which was Liesel and Rudy's first football match.
This was quite amusing. In a dramatical sense, it showed we were all very out of practice when it comes to the practical side of the course. Eventually (after a lot of encouragement-cough-direction-cough from the teacher) we were able to construct several freeze frames and finally a whole scene.
We did have problems with pretending we were 10-year old boys from Germany in 1939, but I think that's common to most actors who have a) just returned to the profession after a 4-month hiatus and b) are a group of amateur teenagers from Essex.
Generally, these traits do not coincide.
Anyway, at 2:29 on the dot, we completed 1 of 13 short scenes, with only another 12 to go.
Over and out.
In the actual lesson, we discussed using a montage of short scenes to show Liesel and Rudy's relationship developing throughout the play, which will ultimately make the ending more heart-wrenching/depressing for the audience. We picked out 13 moments in the book for the montage, and then we decided to improvise the 1st one, which was Liesel and Rudy's first football match.
This was quite amusing. In a dramatical sense, it showed we were all very out of practice when it comes to the practical side of the course. Eventually (after a lot of encouragement-cough-direction-cough from the teacher) we were able to construct several freeze frames and finally a whole scene.
We did have problems with pretending we were 10-year old boys from Germany in 1939, but I think that's common to most actors who have a) just returned to the profession after a 4-month hiatus and b) are a group of amateur teenagers from Essex.
Generally, these traits do not coincide.
Anyway, at 2:29 on the dot, we completed 1 of 13 short scenes, with only another 12 to go.
Over and out.
Monday, 17 September 2012
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