BETHABY SIMONS AND THE ROAD THUS FAR
UPDATE ONE
Had a bit of a chat with my teacher today that really helped clear my head on the whole matter and told me where I was to go from here. We created a sheet that had a brainstorm of questions and things i should address, it focused on things like:
- what did Charlie do in between getting the wood yard and meeting Squizzy?
- What is his objective? Getting Squizzy to stop being criminal. Does he achieve his objective, how?
- Character jounrey
- is it a resolved or unresolved mood at the end?
- who summoned him and how?
- What illegal activities?
-What is his life present day?
-objective
- consequences
- difference between the two Charlies
UPDATE
I've been wokring towards getting my starting down pat, I have needed some time to myself to think and really work out what I have wanted and where I have wanted to go with this. So I've been busy writing notes and brainstorming and creating all different kinds of crazy pages filled with scribbles just so I cant work through all the info in my mind. Getting some time to do my own thing is really important to me and allowed me to come up with some ideas for the opening.
Through brainstorming that I will post later I developed a rough copy of my beginning:
- Charlie is chopping wood in his woodyard (good for biomechanics)
- Man comes and whispers something to Charlie about Darlington Parade or else
- Charlie runs back and turns around
- Turns into messenger/man saying 'Darlington Parade... or else...'
- Charlie says 'heads or tails. yes or no. go or stay.'
- Runs around, does a bit of crawling, climbing kind of thing
- 'heads or tails. go or stay. yes or no. Do i want to see...'
- transform to Squizzy who says 'Squizzy Taylor the biggest baddest crimanl of all Melbourne'
- Charlie goes to knock on the door
- transform to Dasher 'flippen eck is that charlie'
- transofrm to woman caller 'oo isnt he handsome'
UPDATE
Bethany Simons from 'Reception: The Musical' came today to give us some advice and what not. She was very helpful and really gave me energy to tackle the solo. Here are some of the things I took from it:
- Bethany always wanted us to imrov within just seconds so we don't start 'editing' our imrprov before we even start, this is where all the magic happens
- just get up on your feet
- humans are creatures of change so mix it up every now and then
- LABANNNNNNN
- Laban was so helpful to see her transofrm to characters that were a 'push' who were really tense in their words and body movements or someone who is a 'flick' with too much energy in little bursts, she really showed us how we can chnage characters perfectly with those things in mind
- to say everything with purpose and use things like projection, pitch, pace, phrasing and pausing, emphasis and inflection to make the words have more weight and feel more real
- to do every action with purpose
when i performed my short excerpt for her she gave me this advice
- keep your eyes to the audience
- make use of eye lines to direct your words
- make workds meaningful, don't just skip over them, let them make an impact
That was pretty much it, she is totally amazing and cool and I'm really glad she was there to help us out!