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1.       This week we worked on act 2 of curious incident in going over everything from are memory to see what we can still do. Going over this showed that there were some problems with us, we remembered most of what to do but not when to do. We took some time in going over each physical piece to see how much we could still do. There are several pieces we went over; the main piece we worked on was the London train station piece. We worked on how we want to cue each lift in the scene so it is not chaotic during the scene, we also decided that we would go slow motion while a lift was occurring so the audience can focus on the lifts. We agreed that are cue lines would be “the mad bishop” for lift one and two which is where Christopher jumps into 2 peoples arms and they then throw him into another 2 peoples arms that then put him down. Lift 3 is cued by “way out”, lift 4is cued by “Millie’s cookies”. The last lift is cued by “burger king” which is where Christopher does a flip in the arms of 2 of our cast members, this is followed by 6 more lines which are used to slow down the pace after the last lift so we can go back into the next scene.

2.       This week I did a look into what kind of exercises I can do to help me develop my acting skills, I found a activity called alphabet conversation which I have practice with my brother, I feel it has helped improve my creativity in a performance. This activity involves a conversation where each sentence begins with the next letter of the alphabet. This may seem difficult at first, but improves with practice. Here is an example of the exercise between 2 people.

A: Anyone seen my cat?

B: Black one, with funny eyes?

C: Can't say I remember.

D: Don't tell me you've forgotten what it looks like?

E: Every cat looks the same to me.

F: Fortunately, I found one yesterday

G: Gee, that's great

3.       This week I have started a character profile for my main 2 characters in curious incident which are Mr Gascoyne and shopkeeper. For each one I created a whole family for each one like Mr Gascoyne I gave him a wife who was a teacher at the school and 2 children, a boy and girl. I have done this so I can add more depth to my characters while performing as they will have a backstory to use in my performances like for the shopkeeper I gave him a backstory of regularly being robbed by teens in London which shows why he is untrusting of Christopher when trying to buy a A-Z of London.

4.       This week in class we worked on our entire performances, we showed good memory of the work we have done towards the shows and we also demonstrated good communication skills as a team in are stage work as well as working on are lifts as we need trust to work on them well. What didn’t go well was when we put everything together as we started to slow down in are performance as we each started to make little mistakes in remembering are lines or what we should be doing in are physical pieces.

5.       To improve are production as a whole I would like to look over are lifts in are London scene and make even bigger, more impressive lifts. Sadly as a school group we are limited in the amount of lifts we can do like I previously mentioned there’s a lift where 2 people can lifts Christopher above their head with one hand there’s also another lift I would of liked to do where you can lift a person in to the air and have then walk through the air with one person on each foot making them walk. If we had more time I would of like to be able to of done this lift as its very impressive to watch.