14/12/16
Today we made our best scene yet! It was the opening scene, and we managed to explain exactly how our warped version of Cinderella came about, and explain more about the fairies and where they come from. We wanted to have both the good and the bad fairies add things to the story, so for instance: The fairytale Cinderella and the catwalk were chosen by the Good fairy, whereas the evil sisters and the body confidence issues were created by the Bad fairy, which is how the story ended up so muddled and different from the real version of Cinderella.
To add humour, we wanted the fairies to majorly overreact to the appearance of the ugly sisters as we took the masks off them. The idea of the masks is that the other characters are just plain normal village people, and then the fairies turn them into these magical fairytale characters. We also wanted them to go from having a plain, boring, slow physicality when walking around the street, to being instantly in their characters. Being the good fairy, I would sprinkle them with fairy dust (pink glitter) which would make them change into what ever character we wanted.

I'm really pleased with the way this scene turned out as it is fast-paced, and we used the entire stage. It has touches of comedy, and shows pieces of the traditional Cinderella story, like her sisters treating her like a slave. The scene also leads really well into the catwalk scene, however one thing we do need to think about is making sure that this scene can be adapted once the catwalk is running down the middle of the stage, or we could possibly find a way to move it on and off. If myself and Charlotte extend our conversation at the end of the scene, and do it in front of the curtains, this leaves an opportunity for the other actors to push the staging on that makes up the catwalk, provided that we leave the staircases up the whole time, however this is something we would have to consider as a group and practise in class to make sure its not too noisy and it is doable.
Now that we have created this scene, I think it is a lot clearer to the group what we are trying to achieve for our piece, and we might go back and edit previous scenes that we have set. It also really helped us all with our characterisation, and unlike other scenes we've done the fairies were actually friends despite their contrasting personalities. The ugly sister's were perfectly harsh without being too comical and sarcastic. I think this is a scene that the group will be able to look back on if we loose sight of where we are going with the piece, and if we have a slow week when if comes to ideas like last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8l5iN2E2Q&list=PLl8RU1N6TfpLBx2D9Eg4nEh5ge_EKdB4g&index=11