07/04/11 - Run Through!

07/04/11 – Run Through.

This afternoon, we had run through of out play. We were able to practice with some of the costume and two of the       AV screens to play around with (Thank you!), which helped us in shifting around the audience…. And helping us to divide scenes, and hide areas of the stage where cast were sitting but we didn’t want them to be seen, also for creating shadows and creative images using lighting…

After the run through we sat down and discussed what elements of the piece we like, and what elements of the piece we thought needed improving.

Elements of the play we liked:

·         The use of live music… Toby and Paul have written and composed a song for the piece about losing memory, through Henry’s eyes, Ryan has also written a song about memory, and Carmen sings over the rainbow. All these are live performances during the show.

·         The interaction with the audience… we like that the audience is taken around with us and not just sitting and watching.

·         The music is Engaging, having the music performed live is more engaging than having it played on a track, you are more likely to pay attention and listen to the song if it is happening in front of you.

·         Like the way that the lecture is cut, it isn’t just a long lecture, it is split up by scenes with Henry, and Schoville and Brenda.

Elements of the play we think need improving

·         We feel that It has become too ‘Sciency’ during the lecture parts, there is a lot of information to take in, will the audience be bored? Will the pay attention? Will they understand?

·         Need more of Henry, we feel that we need to see more of Henry. He isn’t in the paly as much as we would like him to be.

·         Where are the silks? We realized that we have only used the silks once during the run… We will play around with Silks on our Silks day and see what other scenes we can use the silks in, and if other scenes can take place around the silks.

·         Voiceovers, are there too many voiceovers? Do voiceovers affect the way we act in a scene or the way a scene looks?

If I have missed anything out Please add it!!

Tomorrow, we are working on restructuring the script… Making cuts to Dialogue and to the scenes that have too much in them….

But the more we cuts, means the more we can add! :) Woop!

Ria :)