Monday 27th April 2015

This lesson Roseby came back from Spain! we were so happy because this was the deadline of filming. We needed to film today.

After our usual warm ups, which helped us to relax, focus and calm our minds and bodies, we immediately got into costume and went outside to film our multimedia section we will be including in our scene. We decided to film our piece near the smoking area, at the stumps on the grass. This was because the grass was patchy and looked old, which would relate well with the Greek era our play is set in. We got some stones and spread them on the floor. We got mud from the ground and spread it on Roseby's skin (because she was Polynieces dead on the floor) and we used some red lipstick to spread on her skin as well to make it look like blood. we smudged it in so it looked more realistic. It didn't matter if it didn't look completely real because the video is going to be in black and white and also Roseby won't be up close to the camera, so therefore, from far away it will look realistic. Roseby laid on the grass wearing all black and I played Antigone and wore all black with a red cardigan (all Antigone's had to wear something red which will show the audience that they are Antigone). Benji was the camera man and Jake was the props man, designer and director of the scene. We recorded Antigone finding Polynieces dead body on the hard ground, and we recorded her burying him and covering him with the gravel and a white sheet. It also showed her praying and mourning over his dead body. It was a silent video. We had decided to make the video looik as if it was CCTV footage of the 'criminal' burying Polynieces. Benji offered to edit the video at home ready for the performance day on Thursday.

Later on in the lesson we ran over the chorus sections to make sure we knew what we were doing. But still we didn't even know our chorus lines! We had to run over the lines again and Miss helped us. This time we spent learning lines by repeating it over and over again really helped us because it was useful to just spend some time learning lines we didn't know. Repeating it many times helped it to stick into my brain. After we had the lines set in our brains we ran over the movement, which we seemed to remember, thank goodness! As actors we have to be able to learn our lines!

This lesson was very productive, we managed to film our multimedia section as well as the rest of the class. I'm starting to get really excited for our performance it's only in 3 day now.