1.06.15

In today's lesson we used this for rehearsal time, as we no longer have our acting for camera lessons with Andy on Monday's, this is our chance to use the space in the dance studio for rehearsing.
We mainly focused on scene 10, which I have written about in my "all scenes" blog post.

We created a storyboard for scene 10, and how we want to portray Arturo Ui. As we have 4 actors for this character, we wanted to create a short video, showing the transitions between all four actors which are Heta, Max, Yunusa and Liam.

We all together had ideas about this video, and we thought it would look really cool to have all the Ui's walk out from the curtains of the drama studio and walk towards the camera, staring right into the lense. It was simple to film but looks really effective. It starts with Heta walking out from behind the curtain and towards the camera, then we pause and Yunusa appears and takes one step towards the camera, staring down the lense, and then pause again and we switch to Liam and he takes one step forward, and then the same with Max, and then it ENDS with Heta again, who takes more steps forward and gives a sinister smile and look into the camera, and rubs a black moustache onto her upper lip, using black eyeliner she had smudged onto her fingers. So the video will be very snappy and will change from face to face and end with Heta creating the Hitler inspired moustache. It is humorous in a way, as we are joking around with the moustache, but it is very eery and quite creepy to watch as they all have the same dead expression in their eyes, but you can see the evil and sinister within them as well.
I think it is powerful to the audience and also indicates clearly the transitions between characters, we did this partly for the audience's understanding of the character switches, and because it is creative and interesting for the audience to watch. We did this video for our website, but also we want to play it at the beginning of the performance, so the audience will be clear straight away on the character changes, as in the past we have had the same sort of feedback from audience members that the character changes confused them, so this a cool way to educate the audience without having to tell them directly.