Day: April 19, 2015

Oliver Parkes Blog Post 3

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Upon some deliberation with how the script and the performance is going, we have decided that it would be better for me to be first marked on performing, and second marked on writing, due to the ratio of boys to girls in the group and how the script is panning out. I will still have an effect on the script, but to a lesser extent than before.

 

Our director approached me about the lack of comedy in what we have so far in our script, and with an idea of how to change that. The idea was that we have an “expectation” of what will happen, things like Santa at first being a magical present giver, and then finding out that actually he’s made up. As our piece is now focusing more on different “sections” of life – Growing Up, University/Job, Finding the One, Have A Family, and Retire – we decided that it would be best to have them particular to each section. For example, in the “Have a Family” section, there was:

 

‘Expectation: When I’m a parent, I’ll still have time to have a social life!

Reality: I have more contact with the Teletubbies than I do real human beings.’

 

We decided that there would be five of these per section, as a sort of through-line going throughout the entirety of the piece to contrast the much more serious verbatim stories that we had collected. I have attached them to this post.

 

Expectation-VS-Reality-FINAL

EDIT: Later was added the final expectation/reality starting ‘I’m going to live to be 100!’ but I have added it here for convenience.

 

Ollie

Blog 6

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From the very start of the rehearsal process we loved our paper marketing manager, Hope’s script that she wrote for another module. Originally a feminist piece, myself and Ollie took this script and edited it to make it fit more with Shoes to Fill. It went through many edits from the original script, which I have attached below. The second version was similar to the original but edited by myself to utilise more characters and fairly include one of each gender to have each personality instead of seeming to conform to the stereotype of an overly-flirty girl or boy. For the read-through of our original script, the tinder scene was heavily added to so that it matched the family-based running storyline that I have previously explained about. However, this did not work and so it was decided we should return to the second draft but with the clever decision by Ollie to add more emojis into the scene for comedic effect. The fourth attachment is what was shown in our performance.

Tinder scenes ORIGINAL

Tinder scene EDITED

Tinder Scene FINAL (taken to read-through)

Final tinder scene in performance

 

Hannah.

Collaborating

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Today’s session it was our first time back together after the Easter break and now a script was delivered to the cast to be practiced in workshops. For the first part of the workshop we read through the script and discussed the potential to the scenes. It is always important to try out scenes and characters before they are disregarded.

Now everyone had worked with the script as producer I made the decision to call a meeting for the company to discuss the themes of the script, and what we liked about it and what could potentially be cut. I put the manifesto up on the board to ensure our concept fitted to the script. This session was important as today the decision has been made to cut parts of the script to put in potential verbatim stories that we want to incorporate into our production.

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