12th February 2015 Lesson Analysis of Lift scene + More Goat develpopment

As the cast work through the play in chronological order, me and the parallel goat went off to explore some more traits of our character. We felt that there was more to come out of the way that he moves and that it was too simple to have him doing the same thing for the whole scene. As i read through the script, a part to the character that stuck up to me was the element of suprise. I wanted to show this through his movement. We had already made the decision that he should move slow and low, to make him seem mysterous, but i felt that a sudden out burst into fast movement, added the characters suprise, and the character of Lisa could use this to build up the tension, and he fear of my character. For one example that i made was that on the line "Isnt it obvious?" i will jump down to the stage level, from the higher point that i start on. This make a loud noise as i hit the floor and really shocks Lisa as i burst into her space, and i have changed my body language to very big and open. This helps flip the status of the scene, as i started off very low at around a 3, as my character is pleading with Lisa for her help, and is dependant of her to make the scene carry through. This sudden flip in the status ake my character feel very big, as he comes down to Lisa's level.

When it came to my first scene in the play, which is the lift scene. This is the part where Lisa is on her way into Dissocia. My character is 'Passanger 2', I had already thought about my character in this scene, as it was my first scene of the play. My character is very blunt and abnoxious, i had really changed my tone of my natural voice, a almost 'Lad' like voice, where i put emphasis on everyline, and and spoke at a louder volume that would seem natural in this environment. I gave my character a high status as he feels like he is in charge of the lift as he seems to be the only talking, and he feels relaxed as he has very big, open body language. I think by myself and my parallel cast member having that extra time to start our character development, as we had to wait a bit for our first scene, had a postitive effect on the rest of the cast in this scene, as it raised the energy in the scene, and everyone could then bounce off of each other. I went into this scene, having already thought about it, and what i wanted my characer to be like, and how i wanted everyone to react to him, i feel that this was my main contribution to the play as a whole at the moment, as it meant that we could get straight on with the scene and try out different chreographys, with the turnings.