Amelia Eichel

Virginia and I met today to solidify blocking for the entire scene and to work on moment to moment.

We used the exercise that we did on Tuesday, where we lay with our heads next to each other, to run through all of our lines once first.  Our characters are best friends and are really connected in the scene, so it was important that we established a feeling of closeness and being two young friends hanging out.  Our scene takes place after the girls have already spent an entire day together, so we wanted to get into that headspace of being with a person we spend a lot of time with and are comfortable around.  This helped us be grounded and helped with listening later on.

We met in Howard because the BB was in use, but we were still able to set up the furniture so that we could block as if we were in the BB.  We took Rebecca's advice not to move unless we had a reason and to use the space between us to show the characters' relationship.  In the intimate moments of our scene we sit next to each other, when we argue, we are farther apart and standing up.  Our blocking gets more natural the more we pay attention to the character's intention.  

We practiced the kiss at the end of the scene for the first time today.  We have a fairly easy kiss because it is supposed to be awkward, so it's easier to play than a passionate one.  That moment is really dramatic, so we're playing with pauses and body language to make it as dramatic and realistic as possible.  We are also working on our objectives during the scene because it's all leading up to the kiss.  Virginia is trying to be more flirty so that her objective is clear and I am trying to work on establishing the power dynamic so that it seems like I am trying to impress Virginia because she is more confident than I am.  The power dynamics are really helping us with moment to moment and figuring out why we say certain things.

I am struggling with keeping my voice consistent throughout the scene.  I play a character who is much younger than I am, and I'm trying to figure out how to convey that in my voice without overacting.  I've tried approaching it by really dropping in to the scene and my character and if I really feel like my character, I'll naturally say my lines like I'm a 16 year old.  But I find that even when I'm really dropped in, my voice changes throughout the scene from normal to younger.  Is anyone else experiencing something similar, and if so do you have any advice?

I'm so excited to show you all tomorrow and hear your feedback!