Production Role

Movement Team

 

I was apart of the Movement Team during the performance process for Great Expectations, along with Two other members. We planned to encorporate some sort of movement routine into the play and we thought about where we could put a movement piece in the play and how. We made a timetable of when we could fit a rehearsal in without interrupting lessons or line rehearsals with the directors so we asked if we could do some classes after lunch on Mondays for an hour or for an hour after school on a Monday or a Thursday if possible. 

We wanted to make the change over between all the Pips and the Estellas and the change over between act 2 Pip and Estella a movement piece because it put excitement into the play and would have kept the audience engaged if theyweren't already.

1. What is your task in this production? What are you responsibilities?

My task is to encorporate a piece of choreography/movement into the play Great Expectations.              

   2. What have you done so far?

So far we have planned where to put the choreography in and we have made a timetable for rehearsals and asked for permission from directors to have rehearsals.

   3. Outline the main stages of your production job in terms of preparation, planning and delivery.

 I have prepared an huge amount such as taking on a class of almost 50 students, taking my own time out to come up with a routine and take time out for rehearsals. We have planned the whole thing and know the stages step by step. And we are about to start rehearsals and classes and start to teach the cast members the steps. 

  

   4. Identify the next steps required.

The next steps are rehearsals for he cast. 

   5. How are your ideas working? Have you adapted or made any changes?

Ideas are going well directors are happy with what we have come up with and how we've chosen to put them into the performance. 

   6.How are other peoples' ideas working? Have you used any?

They are also good but we have decided to stick with are original plan and first ideas. 

   7.How does your job fit in to the production? How do other people rely on your work? How do you     make sure that what you do fits in with the overall plans?

My job role fits in quite well into this production seen as are ideas are more physical movement and also some dance from that era. It's mainly the cast that rely on our work because we have to teach them the steps and use their time for a good cause because they also have a lot of work to do themselves, so that means we have to be on task and up to scratch on the routine in order for the cast to get it as quickly as possible.

Pip and Estella

day 4

We perfected our blocking in each scene and focused on emotions of the characters and stage presence, we also talked about the music in the scenes that we need music in and the cast members job roles and how we will fit it in rehearsals and spare time in order to get everything done before April 16th.

Pictures

Day 3

We started to block scenes from 44 to 64 and start to perfect some scenes. We also worked on the change over between Pip 1 and Pip 2 & Estella 1 and Estella 2.

Day 2

An analyse of our little scenes of Being in london , we had to use our bodies to create either a building or some sort of object , and then we had to think about the language and speech and how they spoke and the accent and what they would be doing on the streets. And we also rehearsed the begin of act one with the characters Mr Jaggers , Pip , Herbert , Wemmick , Miss Havisham.
We also created an ensemble piece with miss Havisham and wedding guests whilst Jacob and I ( pip and herbert ) was telling a story.

Day 1 of rehearsals

Great expectations 23/01/14

Last week we sat down and discussed what we will start to do and thought about the image of the play and how we will create objects or change body language to create a certain character. We also was told our parts in the play and started to read over act 2 and have memorise from what we know of.