Indigo Araya Rodriguez
Blog entry by Indigo Araya Rodriguez
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This past week, after having our 1st Round of scenes, Julia and I meet to practice the rest of the scene during the weekend. We worked on text memorization, on how to deliver the lines, as well as physical activity in relation to our individual goals in the scene. We tried to address two of the main comments of the feedback session: playing the obstacle instead of the goal, and moment to moment reaction/no anticipation of the partner's lines. To work on the moment to moment reactions, we tried to mark the intentions of each beat more, as well as giving more space for "digestion pauses".
We need to rehearse a couple of times in the BlackBox because we've come to a point where the lines are coming naturally but the blocking still has a lot of room for improvement. Some of the physical actions that threw us out of character the most in our first round, were by far related the issue with the door, as well as the lack of a constant sensation or physical action. We are trying to play around with different ideas of physical actions like Callie cleaning the apartment more between dialogues as a distraction, or Sara gravitating towards Callie's positioning on the scene (especially when questioning her) or pressuring answers out of her.
We are looking forward to the final result of our scene as there are other groups working with Stop Kiss, which makes it really interesting to see the different approaches to the same character but in different scenes.
We need to rehearse a couple of times in the BlackBox because we've come to a point where the lines are coming naturally but the blocking still has a lot of room for improvement. Some of the physical actions that threw us out of character the most in our first round, were by far related the issue with the door, as well as the lack of a constant sensation or physical action. We are trying to play around with different ideas of physical actions like Callie cleaning the apartment more between dialogues as a distraction, or Sara gravitating towards Callie's positioning on the scene (especially when questioning her) or pressuring answers out of her.
We are looking forward to the final result of our scene as there are other groups working with Stop Kiss, which makes it really interesting to see the different approaches to the same character but in different scenes.