Lief Eve Macias- Journal Ten

Within our last few rehearsals, we have mainly concentrated on our delivery within individual scenes, by delivering the vocals and actions much louder and larger than how they are said and acted out within the original film. Not only did we concentrate on our precision in getting the certain elements exactly the same as the film, but we added and incorporated our natural senses and reactions within the scenes we were performing in, such as adding more breath and sounds throughout certain e.g. – I had never used heavy breath within “Typewriter” before, although I discovered that I found it much easier to be able to add much more emotion within what I was doing, I felt more within the moment.

This really helped in rehearsing with our headphones once again, as this really helped in bringing much more attention to detail. I think this was because this blocked out our surroundings a lot more, we had much more chance to engage with what was being played within our ears, sometimes the words got lost when being played within the space, as we would often get distracted by something happening within the space. We also discovered that the performance became very interesting without the soundtrack playing loud within the performance space. This was strange as it made it feel and sound completely different to what we were used to hearing, seeing and feeling, especially for the audience. It was really interesting when taking off my headphones and just hearing the performers themselves having to perform to the best of their ability to hold the performance together when having no sound to guide it or set a certain atmosphere and tension for the audience, especially when having scenes that are very dramatic and tense. Although many scenes themselves didn’t have sound or music within the background, we also discovered how the large scenes are able to hold the attention well as they are exciting, large and powerful.

Many rehearsals have lacked in peoples absence and reliability for one another. The rehearsal has been much more difficult especially on days when having been planned on concentrating on run-throughs. Therefore we haven’t been able to get as much work done as we had hoped for, so far I have found most rehearsals working better when not having everyone in, mainly because that consists on having the people who are always in within rehearsals, therefore they run smoothly as everyone is slightly more aware as to what is needed to be done or work and scenes that we have perhaps changed or altered in some manner. Therefore our last rehearsal didn’t go as smoothly as we were expecting, mainly because we could have had a much more professional approach to the whole thing. To the camera work, in being much more sensitive and considerable in how we are placing them, where our shots begin and end in order to display a sharp precise image and action, I found the camera work was really messy and all over the place last rehearsal, and every time I took a moment to look at the screen I found our work to be lazy and lacking concentration and care. This is something we really need to take be aware of for next rehearsal, to be as professional as we possibly can, and as prepared, being more confident in what we are performing more than we have ever felt as a group and individually, in order to reveal and give a professional show, as we have done before, and to remember that we can.