Thursday 13th November

Throughout this week we have been going back to scenes where the whole company is used and redoing them as they weren't up to a good standard before or they just weren't working. We started with the opening scene because it just looked a bit rubbish and half hearted, we split into three groups and all came up; with different sections we could use, we start off all in one block and we walk around the stage doing the same sequence, this is quite a simple sequence but should look very effective and clean to the audience. Now we have changed the opening it makes it seem quite exciting and will get the audience engaged and excited for the performance to start, we also set the opening to music from the actual Curious Incident soundtrack hopefully giving it more dimension then just walking round silently. Today we then worked on the London train station, we also set this to music used in the real production of Curious Incident meaning it gave us more of a time scale and beat to it giving it a faster pace which should hopefully make it seem more like London. This was quite difficult as this scene consists of the voices saying lines throughout the sequence and if someone forgets a line it can get messed up quickly especially as on certain lines people have to go into slow motion or lift Christopher. We had to change one lift due to the fact it wasn't working but then we had more time during the song we ended up adding more lifts in and extending this scene, I feel now this scene is as good as we could have imagined it and it should be exciting for the audience to watch. 

We haven't really done anything to develop our skills this week but the London train station has made me listen more to other peoples lines around me so I know when to say my lines and so I can react to other peoples lines. 

The research I have done this week was done in class where we watched clips of people talking about Curious incident, the making of the show and the relationship between Christopher and some of the other characters. This was quite interesting as we were able to see snippets of the show and how they perform different characters and then compare it to how we perform characters. 

This week has been really good as its allowed us to work on scenes that we perhaps not very good and now they are up to a really good standard. My strengths this week have been my ability to focus on all the small things we have to be doing during these scenes and making sure I am aware of everything around me. My weakness this week has been learning my lines, I struggle with learning lines and when it gets closer to performing I then get stressed out which doesn't help but I will keep reading through my lines everyday and I'm sure I will get them as I don't have a massive amount to say compared to other characters . 

I think the only thing to develop the production further would be to know what we are doing as a company and know all our lines and be really confident with it.