1984 28/06/16

Today we staged the end of the play we talked about where Winston is sat under the pink umbrella we talked about if we thought this was real life or fake. I think the section where Winston gets tortured is fake and the whole play is not real we are just reading the book in bookclub and it is being performed around us we are just talking about the book and it is coning to life but its not really happening we don't see it.

1984 23/06/16

Today we were working on the scene with Winston and O'Brien and the section with between Winston, Waitress and Julia which then goes back into book club where I finish by singing the whole oranges and lemons song and Winston says thank you at the end.

1984 21/06/16

Today we ran everything that we had blocked we found problems with the scene on page 24 when Winston faints we wanted to change it because we think it would look more effective if we all joined in with it instead of Winston just falling over. We changed this and made improvements we all came on a different times and made a circle round Winston to show him getting more confused we made the lights flicker and then the lights go off and we are back in book club we all come on singing oranges and lemons so Winston is very confused at this point and is thinking this is happening but its in his head.

We looked at our characters when I do my child bit before I go on I remind myself how I am going to act and make sure I can say the word criminal right.

1984 17/06/16

Todays lesson we created a movement piece for the line where it says "suddenly there is an almighty crash and countless men in uniform flood into the room and set about dismantling it. It is terrifying and completely disorientating; the whole world changes" we all agreed that this is the complete opposite of the book club and the safe area has been destroyed we wanted the audience to think book club was real but its not and we shock them and mess it all up. 

We stated thinking of different moves which we thought looked like we were destroying the book club I came up with a move where we bang are hands on the floor and one where we do a action like we are ripping are heart out Kat and I came up with these moves together and we also said about walking into different places each time after we had finished a move. We also decided to throw chairs to each other to show that the book club was being taken away and it was never real. We used a song called Mudvayne's Dig which is loud which will make the audience feel the piece more. I feel that it had a really nice flow but we need to make sure that we remember it and that it is not messy after we practiced lots it looks a lot better. 

Character Profile for Child

Character Profile - Child




















Writing in a Role - the scene with Winton, Child, Mother.
I want to kill mother she never lets me watch the executions. I HATE HER. I love the executions. Just as much as I like chocolate she never lets me have chocolate. NEVER. All I want is to have my sisters chocolate its the only thing I want. AND THE TV. AND EVERYTHING. It should all be mine its not fair my sister gets to have all the chocolate why does she get to have all the chocolate I am the one growing. I am the better child I am going to get further than her. She's horrible I'm not. I just hate them both so much. Mother always tells me to stop I never do anything wrong. I want to be in the thought police I would be a better thought police than she will ever be.

1984 14/06/16

Today we took part in a vocal exercise to help with our voices we are starting the scene where we do two minutes of hate because it is very vocal so we thought we should do a vocal exercise so we can shout with our diaphragm. I feel that I need to practice this more because I usually shout using my throat but I need to use my diaphragm so I don't damage my voice and if I do vocal exercises it will help me be more relaxed and confident when producing my lines especially when I am shouting as child.

I am going to be filming my Goldstein speech because everyone is shouting at the screen this represents the two minutes. When filming this projection I feel like I need to deliver my lines with confidence which I should be able to do easily because I have learnt my lines for this point I just need to remember them when we film I feel that Goldstein is very malicious and he is enjoying everyone shouting at him he loves the pain and people hating him the speech he is explaining is brain washing the others to encourage them for the two minutes of hate. I need to make sure when I film this I sound like I am enjoying them shouting at me and have to be clear and believable so all the audience can understand what I am saying. Goldstein is a symbol of hate everyone should look down on him and if he says something that he likes everyone else hates it because he likes it. 

1984 10/06/16

Today we started talking about the performance we saw yesterday which was People, Things and Places and thought of ideas that we could use in 1984 I liked the sounds effects they used when they did their movement so I would like to add some of that in to 1984 we are going to have different sounds and lighting which shows the scene changing we added music to sections of our piece to show the scene changing so have more movement sections not all dialogue.

1984 07/06/16

Today we run everything we had done so far, we also staged the scene between Charrington and Winston because they have not done that scene yet.

When I do my child scene I need to make sure I am horrible so the mother is scared of me when I enter I am blowing a whistle and then I start shouting at Winston and then I stop shouting and talk to him but I need to make sure that the audience understand the mother is scared of me so everything I say has to be rude and I need to sound spoilt because I demand things to my mum. A target for the child is to know all the lines and when I say them they have a feeling to them I want the audience thinking to themselves that I am mean and they don't like.