1984 27/05/16

Today we decided to re-stage everything that we had done and came up with a common ground which was book club. This is when are all talking in a group about the book we wanted it to be a book cub like we are talking about the book this made everything so much easier and it will help us know what and who is the real characters in Winston's life. We know want the audience to understand what we are talking about and come along with the story with us so they understand it the same as we do. I think this helped us all with saying are lines because we understand what we are saying and we are not just saying are lines we have a meaning for them. We understand all the characters more now and we know how it links within the book club when we come back from the half term we will develop more of what we have done I feel more confident now of what I am talking about and know the story more now I think I would like to go through more of the story so we know what is real and what is not.

1984 26/05/16

Today we sat down as a group and talked about what was real in the play and what was reality here are some pictures of what characters we think are involved in the Winston's memories or his real life.

1984 24/05/16

Today we carried on with the script and starting staging another part of the play. When I played my child in my scene I found this challenging because I could not say "criminal" so I had to practice a lot in the scene to make sure I could get it right the child is horrible and has to shout a lot in the scene saying that Winston is a thought-criminal but the child is Winston when he was younger. I tried saying the lines slower so I could pronounce them correct and that the audience would understand what I say I want my character to sound creepy and horrible and when he enters and starts shouting the audience will be scared. We all talked about if we thought Julia was real or just a made up person from Winston or if Julia is working with big brother we all thought about if big brother was real as well. In my opinion I think lot of it is made up and we keep have flash backs and memories from Winston but I believe big brother is real and Julia is a real person.

1984 20/05/16

Todays lesson we started the script work for 1984 I think this was a successful lesson because we got the first look of what 1984 was going to look like. I had my first look of my child scene and I discovered that with this character I need to be horrible and mean and that the child is Winston as a child but we don't know if his child memories are real or if he is thinking that is what had happened. We have finished our prologue which is looking great it shows that we are all together as one and then someone will break out of big brother controlling us and try to escape but then they don't in the end. We decided when we are not on stage we are going to be at the side seating on chairs to show how the government are over watching the public.

1984 Play 17/05/16 and 19/05/16

Today we did some vocal exercises we started the lesson by doing some breathing exercises because we need to be able to control our breathing and speaking we want to speak from our diaphragm then we won't hurt are vocal cords. We did different exercises like feeling our diaphragm while we were breathing in and out and making different sounds with our mouth. We also stood up and did this I found it easier when we stretched out and stood up and did our vocal exercises we also did some tongue twisters I found some of them harder than others because you do lose your words when you keep repeating the same words. We then sat down and had a chat about our prologue. We all gave some ideas of what we thought we could put into the prologue we wanted to show the control of big brother and the rebellion with Goldstein. In the prologue we start off in a cinema looking up at a screen then we show the whole chaos of someone getting controlled by big brother different times we do some moves in the same way and then someone breaks out because Goldstein who is me is going to be shown on the screen and then they will break out and try to get away from it. It is showing people getting controlled from big brother and how it can affect everyone I think this worked really well because we want to get our point across to the audience to show that big brother are the evil ones. I came up with some of the movement we could do in the piece when we were all in formation and said about using the cloth to put are hands up too this showing that big brother are taking over us. All of us worked well together to come up with a fantastic opening to the performance. We worked on the prologue for two lessons overall I need to get into the character of the performance so it is fully believable for the audience.

1984 Play 13/05/16

Todays lesson we had to create an audit of what we thought we needed to improve on and things we thought we were good at. We were given a list of these breath control, projection, diction/articulation, effective use of paces and pauses and the quality of the tone.

We also found out the cast list for 1984:

• CHARLIE:   Charrington   /   Speakwrite
• HOPE:   Mrs Parsons   /   Waitress
• JAMES:   Parsons   /   Father
• KATYA:   Host   /   Martin   /   Thoughtcriminal
• LEWIS:   Syme   /   Man
• LORNA:   Voice   /   Mother   /   Woman
• OLIVER K:   O'Brien
• OLLIE M:   Child   /   Goldstein   /   Woman's voice
• RHIANNON:   Julia
• ROBERT:   Winston

1984 Play 12/05/16

Today we were all given a script and was in pairs and we had to perform a scene together as Winston and Julia. I was in a pair with Kat we started reading the section to see what it was about and what we had to do within the scene we found out that they are in a room together that is a secret room just them two and Julia is giving Winston different foods that she has collected we decided to set it that we were laying down on the bed then we get up at the same and start talking about food and then I get up when Kat starts to talk about rats because he does not like them we had to show a lot of body language because our mood does change a lot in this scene. Kat and I did find this scene challegeing because they are adults so we had to act older so we did find it difficult next time we need to think about the way we talk and sit down when we are talking to each other because sometimes it looks like we are chilren trying to play adults.

The next scene I was given was with Charlie I played Winston again and Charlie was Charrington he is an old man who has an antique shop and offers Winston a place to stay to get away from all of the noise and the cameras I played this the same as I did with the scene with Kat but I still need to make sure I am using a different voice because I use my own voice for most of the characters I play.

1984 10/05/16

Todays lesson we were given the script for 1984 we all read a part out each and went through the whole script I found it very interesting and wanted to know more about what is in the play. We all agreed that we need to work on our voices and articulation because some of us don't pronounce words correct so we are going to spent a lesson working on our diction.

1984 06/05/16

Today we decided to created another prologue but for 1984 so we split into groups and starting working on a different one but we had the same music. We talked about technology and wanted to include some of the things we had in our last prologue because we really enjoyed that last time. I was in a group with Kat, Rhiannon, Rob and James we showed the technology, robot and controlling side and we wanted to show that big brother were taking over us all from the mind and in real life physically. We decided to have everyone get taken over and then just have one person who still has the individuality of them and has to be tormented to be taken over by big brother. You used lots of movement in this and tried to include some lifts but I think next time we need to come out of our comfort zones to try some new things. The other group had the same sort of idea trying to get someone to join their side but they showed it different that lots of people did the same things.

After Troy 05/05/16

Today we were split into groups and were given a section from the script. The girls and the boys were split into different groups our one was that all the men were in a cave it was a piece between Mester, Kratos, Talthybuis and Agamemnon. I took the direct role in the creation for the scene so I was the director and made sure that everyone know where they were going to be standing and made sure the facial expressions and movement was used well in the scene for example when Mester walks in some of the others have to grab him because they think he is going mad so I had to make sure they showed this in the right way.

After both groups performed their piece we had a chat about what we thought about After Troy and if we wanted to try another play out because we don't think it was working for us and we were not understanding the language of the play. Our teacher said about another play called 1984 which is about big brother is watching you we had a chat about how we thought it was and watched a couple of clips and decided to have a look on it next lesson because we think it would work more for us.