Thursday 26th March 2015

Thursday 26th March 2015

In this lesson we were put into groups of 7 and we were given a scene between Creon and Antigone to develop. My group was Connor, Logan, Eric, Harmony, Will and Max. our scene was where Antigone is confessing to Creon that she was the one who buried her brother and is willing to take her punishment for it. We made the scene more modern to make it more understandable for our target audience. The accent we used was more of an East End accent.

We done this to help us to get an understanding on how we can interpret a modern version of a scene from Antigone. This was useful since we will be doing this for our show of Antigone. This exercise was a way of communicating with others in the other class which helped us to bond and connect which will help us to feel more comfortable with working with new people.

When we read the script together we learnt that the style of writing was quite different to how we speak today. There was no slang or words that were shortened. Reading the play and looking at the text helped us to think about how our characters talked and what era and community they were in.

The language we decided however, was to make it as modern as possible and this made the characters more humorous, because they said words such as; "mint", "blud", "man", "bloodclart" and "fuck". It made the audience laugh because there was bad language included in the piece. Although it made the scene more understandable and easier for the audience to understand, it kind of took away the purpose of the play. It made the characters less formal and more informal and made them seem modern.

Our scene was different from the other peoples. We decided not to incorporate multimedia however some groups decided to which was a lovely idea. This was Antonia's group. The group had some amazing ideas that were put together. They incorporated the idea of social media in it to make the scene even more modern. This was a good idea because they thought outside the box and challenged themselves to experiment the type of work we will be doing shortly.


Notes I made on other groups:
Group 1: Jamie, Susana, Connor, Jedd, Taffie and Oriana: - It started with some teenage girls gossiping about what they had heard. This was good because it made the piece more modern by incorporating girls at a sleepover gossiping.
-It was quite comedic which didn't make the piece too sad or depressing.
- They portrayed Antigone as rude and sarcastic which showed us hat Antigone was confident but could also come across rude in her speaking.
-It was set in a school which was interesting because they incorporated youths in the piece.

Group 2: Benji, Nina, Antonia, Rory, Michelle, Daniel: -It was very, very good, definitely my favourite performance.
- They excellently include technology within their piece by using mobile phones. They included social media as well. And they were talking about how Antigone buried Polynieces and what they thought about her over a social media chat. This was great as it was made modern so that the audience could relate a lot more to the scene.

Group 3: Matteo, Sarah, Ellis Sherene, Pheobe: - It was very modern but to improve maybe they could have not over-used the swearing in their piece an it did become a bit too much of bad mouthing each other. Although it was very funny, all of he swearing took away the importance of the scene and made everyone laugh because of the amount of swearing in the piece.

Group 4: Anya, Nansi, Louie, Cameron, Alex, Poppy: - It had a big brother theme
- To improve I think that they could have made the piece shorter as it did drag on for quite a bit.

Group 5: Jake, Frankie, Roseby, Thiago, Gloria, Zac: - They projected their voices very well
- It was interesting and a good use of technology as well as it being converted into modern life.

Group 6: Tim, Amaia, Matilda, Daniella, Llyod :- It was very funny
- They used multimedia well in their scene
- They made the piece modern so it was easy for he audience to understand. They had changed the language so it was easier to interpret.

Group 7: Clement, Natasha, Stacey, Alabama, Oliver, Chris: - It was set in a pub and this made it realistic for the audience as most things are set in a pub as pubs are a popular place to go for over 18's in England.

This lesson was good because we got to try out how to make our scene as modern as we could. We changed the language and got to experiment with the play.