Thursday 16th April 2015

Today we recorded the moment of the choral speaking and some breathing. This will be used to play for the people who will be watching scenes outside. We will be using garage band to edit our recording. This idea was really great because it will give the audience a chance of listening to not only the actors but to a recording which was previously recorded.

We discussed as a whole how each scene was relevant to a modern audience. Our scene (Roseby, Jake, Benji and I) is relevant and interesting to a modern audience because it shows them that people still commit crime and it will make them look at how life is today and compare it to how it was back in the time of Sophocles. Also it is interesting how we have co-operated the idea of a news report in our scene. We are using a t.v screen in our piece and this will be good for the audience because it will show them what happened previously in the play. It will give them an interesting option to either look at the acting or to look at the t.v screen. Recording part of our scene was good because it can help us to show two sides of the story. In the recording we show the side of Antigone burying Polynieces however on the day we will be acting and showing Creon's bad temper tantrum.

Before we recorded the scene, we had to plan what we were going to act in the clip. So this lesson, we prepared and got ready to record our video so we didn't have to repeat the recording loads of times on the day we recorded it.We decided on costumes. Antigone's wore a red item of clothing and Polynieces wore all black and he had red lipstick smudged on himself to make it look like he was bleeding and had been lying there for a long time. We also smothered dirt on Roseby's skin to make it look like Polynieces had been there for a while. We decided to record it near the posts at the smoking area this was because it had good levels. The camera man (Benji) would stand on a post and record the scene looking down on Polynieces (Roseby) who was laying down on the grass below. Jake was the props man and I was Antigone. We used a white sheet as something to cover Polynieces with and some stones plotted around the grass.

Later on in the lesson we performed our scenes. We performed our part of our scene that we will show live to the audience on the performance night. This was a scene between Creon and his guard. Our scene was successful because we included a new report into our scene and it captivated the audience because there was two places on the stage. Roseby and I were news reporters however Jake and Benji were inside Creon's palace. To develop our scene we need to learn our lines. We need to learn it before the rehresal so that we can run it through smoothly.