Both of the scenes that i got had the same problem with their blocking i feel. I felt that they were all to busy and there were to many people in the scenes to handle and it drew away from the conversation and what was going on. In some of our drama rehearsal technique lesson we looked a game where there is a rule where at all times someone has to be seated, someone lying down and someone standing up. I thought that we could adapt this game into the scene, that when we saw at least one character move around the stage, or change postions, everyone else in the scene would have to re-position themselves.
Once we put this into practice it worked really well for the song 'Youll see Boys' as there is five people in the scene it always felt clustered and crowded. But by adding in this rule it gave the song a flow and from this we could then add in some more character relationships and i could now feel some room to explore the hatrid towards Benny/Betty. This rule didnt work as well for the song 'Today 4 You' as this song is mainly all about Angel and is her/his big entrace song. I suggested that we still kept this three positioning rule concept but adapted it futher to angel being the central revolve of the scene and us three other characters would keep moving around her to make her seem like the Sun compared to us.
From everyone elses feedback about the flat scenes i learnt that my character spends a lot of time in this setting, particularly in the first act. I want to think more about my surroundings and objects in the flat. We sat down with our director and everyone that is often in the flat and we went through some things that gave the flat purpose. By setting the world of the play it gave me somethings to base each scene off and gave me some movement plans and i could start to plan some pathways within the songs. We have now put a couch at the other end of the flat and some tables and objects to give the space purpose and worth.
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