12/12/16
Today we worked on the scene straight after the catwalk. We were struggling with ideas today on what the sisters could say about the competition, and I think the scene we created was weak but whether we use it or not in our final piece, it has some good ideas and improvements can be learned from watching it back. In the scene, the 3 sisters basically talk about their thoughts and feelings after the competition, but it lacks energy and is a bit boring. At the end, Cinderella comes home to find her sisters extremely angry with her, one of them slaps her and the other makes her scrub the floors.
As we are working with the sensitive subject of domestic violence in this scene, I think it's important to avoid any humorous comments. We need to either make it humorous and leave the slap out of it, or make it very dark and dramatic, but I will discuss this with my group.
The fairies do not say anything in this scene, which is fine as it seems to be just a connection between the sisters, however if this is the case we should either be on stage but not lit, and in still images, or be offstage completely. Watching myself back, I was annoyed by my character spinning her umbrella so cheerfully, especially as Cinderella is being abused, I don't think it was appropriate! Oops.
Similarly to last lesson, I think this scene could also do with some of the lines being scripted as once again our group couldn't really think of much for the characters to stay, although this could be improved by further character development.
Today we built the set fully, with the staircases and the islands. Although it used up a lot of our time which we could have spent working on the scene, it helped us gain an understanding of where out characters can and cannot go, how much room we will have to fill on stage and how to co-operate the catwalk into every scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASJtUg-2mE&list=PLl8RU1N6TfpLBx2D9Eg4nEh5ge_EKdB4g&index=9