Why did we do this?- So when we perform the chorus the audience who are looking out the window can watch us doing the physical theatre work and listen to our voices, by putting us breathing over the top, it gives a scary feel to the piece creating a tense atmosphere which will intrigue the audience.
How will having the pre-recorded sound support this moment of the performance? The audience will be listening to this whilst you perform on the basketball court. - By having our voices recorded before and played while we perform the chorus it will make it the audience understand the piece more. It is also a lot easier for us performing to have pre- recorded our voices, as it would be hard for the audience to hear us from the basketball courts, and if we did speak the chorus live we would've had to of shouted and it would not of sounded as good as the creepy whisper we did in the recording. Finally it gave us a better chance to concentrate on our physical theatre movements instead of the words.
The chorus has been difficult sometimes in rehearsal, as trying keep everyone focused was sometimes hard, but with things like this you have to have good discipline. I think to make the chorus look really good we all have to be really committed to every move. For example when we do the marching on the spot, some people are really going for it and are hunched over swinging their arms, but others are just moving up and down on the spot, so it looks weird if some people are going for it but others are just not committed.
For the second chorus I think everyone found this a lot harder, as we had to learn lines for this one. The lines were sometimes complicated, with words that are hard to pronounce and do not use today. But i really liked using the Greek language, i thought it added something to the piece, and even though they were hard to learn it would be definitely worth it for the performance. I am going to learn the lines by reading them over and saying them lots so I get it stuck in my head. I think its really important to learn the lines exactly, as it gives the performance that much extra, and also helps us expand our vocabulary and acting skills.
We discussed how the pieces that you are creating are relevant for a contemporary audience.
How is your piece relevant for an audience?- Our piece is relevant for a modern audience, because in our scene we show betrayal in family, men having the higher status, sibling love, death, prison, war, all topics that are important and still here today. This means that everyone in the audience will be able to relate to the characters in some way or other. Maybe they have been hurt by someone, either in their family or a good friend, like how Antigone is betrayed by her uncle as he sends her to death and her sister because she wouldn't follow and bury their brother.
How is the moment of multi-media in your piece relevant for the piece?- In our piece we have two videos, the first one is off Antigone being dragged away to be buried alive, it also shows the reactions of Ismene and Creon, showing how Ismene is devastated and scared at her sisters death, but Creon is happy about her death, it shows his evil side. This is relevant because it shows the audience what happens to Antigone in a more interesting way then just showing it live, as we use different locations making the video look really cool. Our other video is when Antigone is in the cave and behind her is a video of Creon and other people dressed as guards speaking into the camera. This is relevant to the piece because it shows how Antigone is feeling, and what she is thinking, it shows Creon in the background and this conveys to the audience that Antigone has horrible visions of him in her head and that is shown in the video behind her.
Some groups did some filming today. How did it go? How will this support your piece? - The filming went well as they all got it edited and it looks really good. In one of the videos it shows interviews of people talking about Creon. Some people show fear about talking about him, while others either praise him or are not scared of him and talk harshly of him. This supports my piece because it shows how people feel about Creon, like how evil he is and that helps with the character we have interpreted Creon as in our piece.
What planning did you have to do before the filming? Write the script? Rehearse? Think about the best place to film it? Costumes...? - Before filming we spoke about what we wanted to do, and we all agreed that we would film it as non- speaking, because we thought it would be more effective. We didn't as such rehearse but talk about what we were going to do and film it, but a lot of what we filmed was improvised and it looked really good. We chose to film it behind the canteen, as we were able to use different levels and angles. It was also a good place to show the dragging bit, as we did it down a hill where i run off camera and in our piece i run on stage just after so it looks really effective. With our costumes we kept to the dress code, Antigone wearing red, Creon wearing a white shirt and black tie, Ismene wearing white, and the Guards wearing black.
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