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1.      This week we work on make a realistic London scene, to do this we split in two and each group came up with their own idea on how to make London.

My group came up with a London high-street idea in which we would have merchants selling items to the cast and out to the audience. Christopher would wonder round the scene going from shop to shop bumping into strangers. We had this part when a strange man approached him and everyone went quiet to hear him offer drugs to Christopher. This idea ends with Christopher arriving at the shopkeeper who sells him an A-Z of London.

The other group came up with an idea of a sound scape to do for all the noise you here in London; there were noises of birds, construction work and people shouting. This turned into a mad dash around Christopher where he is knocked about. In the end we merged the two ideas and came up with are London scene that opens with a soundscape and has points were it quiets down for interactions with Christopher.

2.      This week are teacher came up with an exercise that would help us with are creativity and performances. In this exercise he would shout out wired things which we would then have to act like, one example is we were told to be purple. I found this all hard to start with as I spent too much time thinking about how to do this, later I found out that’s this was about improving are instincts and not to think about what we are doing but to just do it as instinct. I believe that after I learnt this I was able to grow on my instinct in acting and make them better.

3.      This week I have done some research in to how I should perform the role of Mr Gascoyne. I looked in to my grammar and pronunciation I would use as a head teacher; I believe I would be well spoken to set an example to students. I looked into posture as I believe I would be stood tall without a slouch. I also looked at how I should respond to certain question like when Ed requests that Christopher should do his A-levels early.

4.      This week’s work on performance went well as we came up with a lot of good scenes and ideas for the London scene and also got a lot done in scripting scenes but I feel we could have done more as we keep getting distracted by each other. So I believe if we can start next week with more concentration we could get a lot more work developed in the show so we have more time to perfect other pieces of work nearer the show date.

5.      To develop the production further I feel we need to go back and work on some of the movement pieces as in my opinion there a bit messy, like the scene where Christopher is looking for his book we created the house using us but how we get to each position is a bit messy as we collide with each other while transitioning between still images.