Griffin Flowers

While we were rehearsing yesterday, I had the idea to try to go through the scene, but slightly different: we were going to actively try to freak each other out while playing the scene. The reasoning behind this was to try to give a bigger, more extreme "pinch" to make the "pinch-ouch" a more natural response. Also, since Ben and Kenny have such a competitive/combative relationship, this seemed like a good way to get our characters to get under each other's skin.

The result was very interesting, and made a lot of our dialogue a lot more explosive in the moments where we're arguing, and more tense in the quieter moments. One thing that really surprised me was how much going into the scene with that mindset of trying to catch Dan/Kenny off-guard changed the dynamic. Some of my lines that I had previously interpreted as a defense or a justification (ex. when I'm trying to convince Kenny to pay me for financial advice) now seemed like an attack, giving a clear, yet different reason for Dan to shut down the argument. It created a really cool, more exciting energy that I hope to keep in our scene.

One thing I'd like to work on still is our blocking; a lot of the time, it feels like we're either making a lot of it up as we go through the scene or sticking too rigidly to the blocking we decide on; is anyone else running into this issue? I'd like to try to find something somewhere in the middle, but I'm not really sure how.