3rd Week 25th - 28th September

25th September (Monday)

We continued to work with R&J play starting from the party scene. Everyone is going to be on stage during the scene where Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time.We broke into few groups enjoying with our little conversations without making any sounds as we were supposed to be the background for this scene. Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt and Capulet will be speaking with their own lines while we 'the guests' will continue to enjoy our party. We were asked to be quiet when getting our voices louder, because the loud noises in the background will affect the actors from saying their lines in front.

Having both groups of people on stage acting different things is a very good idea as audience gets to see the details we put in the scene. Yet, if both of the groups make noises at the same time, audience wouldn't know where to put their focus on. So, Rob has been so serious when we make too much noise at the back.

What I learned form above?...
It is important to let actors to know we do not only act with a character on stage but we also need to think of how we will look in front of the audience. For example, we all knew that it's going to be a party scene on stage, we enjoyed it, and putting all the big movements and voices in the scene and did not realize that it could be a bad consequent if audience couldn't get what the main characters are doing in front. 

Next we are going to focus on our understanding for the play and our freezing technic. We added three most important scenes in the list and we have to act it out by adding one dialogue for each scene and freeze for few seconds before moving to another scene. 

Here are the three important scenes in R&J showing with pictures...

The very first scene.
Nikaya represents Juliet from Capulet. Jeremy represents Romeo from Montague.
Abe play as Abraham and I'm Sampson. We both show our hate to each other from each family. 

The Party Scene. 
The scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet.
Abe and I represent the guests in background. 

The very last scene. 
The death of Romeo and Juliet.
Abe represents the Capulets and I represent the Montagues.
Showing that the death of the couple had brought how awful upshot to both family.

We presented the three scenes to class, then Sharon asked us to present it again with adding three more important scenes from R&J. Which will be six in total. After a ten minutes of discussion and demonstrating. We came up with the six scenes:

• The fighting scene between Montagues and Capulets
• The party scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet 
• The balcony scene where Romeo confess his love to Juliet
• The marriage between Romeo and Juliet
• The fighting scene that kills Paris and Tybalt
• The final scene where Romeo and Juliet die

Four of us used up most empty spaces in the theatre and the pausing time gap between each scene was just right. Besides, we did great in our levels too, we have half lowered body, laying done on the floor and also standing up straight.

What I learned from above?...

Freeze frames are one of the most important technics for an actor. As the play goes on and on actors change their expression fast from angry to more angry or less angry by any line they speak. But with freeze frame, actors get to show their facial expression in specific timing without any conversation with others and do not need to react from what they say. It is just all about what you see and what you feel about the scene. 

26th September (Tuesday) + 28th September (Thursday)

We finished with the whole play!!