Lewis & Clark Moodle

Hello, Amber here!

This week, Momoka and I focused on the quick back-and-forth exchanges/cutoffs of dialogue in our text. There are a few lines that the both of us still struggle with, and we didn't have as much time to rehearse for our in-class performance as we would have liked because I had an event to go to out of town. Once we have those exchanges completely down, we'll work on the notes that were given to us, like specifying our physical actions more. 

We've also been discussing what props we will need, and I'm definitely going to try and replace my friend's empty tequila bottle with something more fitting because wow, Catherine's poor liver. 

Hey everyone! Here's what Abdo and I have been up to this past week

For this week, we focused on rehearsing the scene for our in-class rehearsal. When we arranged time to meet on Friday, we tried to work on the blocking and the physical action. We particularly talked about how to create a smooth flow of our movement in space so that our audience can be well-oriented. We also found ways to connect with the objects and props we have in the scene to make full use of what we have. On Sunday, we spent the afternoon working on layering our texts with our physical behaviors, there are still some gaps we need to fill in in the future but we are hopeful in terms of our final scene. In the process, we were able to learn more about our character's personality and their relationship.

Hey, it's Zoe!

This week was pretty difficult for Daniel and I. We hit a sort of roadblock this week. Since we are nearing the end of the semester, we are both extremely busy. We weren't able to meet outside of class because of how conflicting our schedules were. We decided to do individual work on lines and the notes we were given on Monday. We both went through the script and highlighted every single pause, so we would know where every single pause is. We don't want any unnecessary pauses. 

The video I included was from last week when we rehearsed in a room that had a little too many chairs. 

Have a good week everyone!

Hey guys! 

Just an update: We have been working very hard on our scene this week. We've got our lines down to a science. Now its just us getting our cut offs and beats correct. That's what we've been doing all weekend. We ran through our scene a least 30 times so we can be well prepared to show you guys (the class) our hard work. 

We show our draft tomorrow and we hope to get good feedback from you!

Here's a little teaser trailer of our scene

Sorry for the delay guys. This blog is about Wyatt's and my rehearsal process for the second week of scene work. 

So Wyatt and I have met up a few times out of class to run the scene, over and over. We have run it so many times I feel like I am saying the lines in my sleep. I really feel like the only way I learn lines is repeating the scene indefinitely. I also noticed that when I feel like were having some sort of breakthrough with the scene I forget my lines or change them without noticing because something new is happening inside of me. 

When we get bored and feel like we are repeating the same thing we talk about how if feels and of there is something we can do to mix it up. One time Wyatt suggested just doing a really melodramatic run of the scene. Surprisingly that run actually felt the most "real," I think this is because we were just doing something different so our reactions were a surprise of the moment and we weren't afraid of being bad because we felt comfortable enough to be bad. We would also try the scene with different mop positions, sitting down at various times, and really just experimenting with anything we could think of. I think our scene has come a long way but I still sometimes feel like our performance is stale and actors actin and sometimes I actually feel myself cry a little but at the end because I find little ways that Rose relates to my own life, and just life in general. I wish I knew the difference in what causes each feeling and how to hone the really real feeling. It can't simply be luck, but right now thats how it feels. Randomly we will have a run-through that feels moving and randomly I will just feel like it sucks. I guess thats just part of acting 

Anyways, thats what our week 2 was like, thanks guys! 

After another week of rehearsals I feel like good progress is being made on our scene. This past week has been used mostly to incorporate all of the helpful advice and criticism we got after we performed on Wednesday. Having done our best to look through everything we heard I think the scene is already much stronger, but more rehearsals are definitely needed.

Hello, everyone! 

Falcon and I come with many updates on our progress. This has been an exciting and productive week for us. We began by preparing the first few minutes of our scene. This meant running lines, blocking, and, of course, practicing. During our brief showcase this past Monday, I realized that a lot more work needs to be done to really flesh out all the moving parts of this scene. As Falcon mentioned last week, Peter, my character, only appears in this one scene. There is not a ton to go off of, therefore I have been busy testing out different "versions" of this character to experiment with what I have been given in the text. What if I play him like he wants to fight with Sara from the very start of the scene? What if I try acting like he is a bit more conflicted? Does he empathize with Sara at all? If so, how much? I am curious to see which one works the best! Falcon and I originally wanted Peter to be super standoffish right from the get go, but upon further experimentation, that seemed to be a little much. I've dialed it back a bit since then, and I think Peter is more believable now, and more complex.

So far, this week, we have been working on the latter part of the scene—lines specifically. I was surprised to see how quickly we had them memorized just by talking through them with each other. We ran them while walking around an empty classroom, which was surprisingly helpful. It allowed us to stay focused on them... but not too focused. The lines quickly became second nature—which was exactly the point!

Our scene is definitely shorter than some of the others, which means there are less lines (which is kind of disappointing for me since I enjoy talking a lot) but it also means that we will have a chance to really dive into each moment and sculpt it into the best version of itself. I'm really looking forward to getting into the weeds of this project over the coming weeks!

-Connor