Sub-Text

In this lesson we spent a good deal of time looking through the scene and just thinking about our character's subtext, we then just dove right into it and started performing the scene and every time we wanted to say what the character was really thinking even if it wasn't on their line we would clap out and say what the subtext is, I feel this exercise really helped all of us get the characters emotions and thoughts through clearly and helped us to understand what and why they would think or feel like this.

Character Profile

For the past two weeks we have been working on the scene where William comes into school with a gun and shoots three of us. This is probably the most difficult scene and the things we were struggling with the most is making the scene look believable. We spent a long time working on when each character gets shot, my character gets shot twice and we wanted to make it look dramatic as it was the first scene but we didn't want to make it look fake. Because we incorporated the piano into our set and that's the set I'm closest too at the time we decided it would be a good idea for me to get shot once and then fall onto the piano and hold on to support myself and then I get shot again which kills me, I think it would be a good idea to fall behind the piano as it almost hides my body but you can still see me, I feel this would be slightly more dramatic than just having me out in the open in front of the piano.


We also worked on making sure that we would have the right angles of death after being shot, we will try and make sure that Tom stands in the same place when shooting us so when he does shoot us and we fall we fall in the correct way and direction that we were shot. This is essential when he shoots the character Cissy as he is standing  behind her, Tom needs to make sure he does it the same way we rehearsed it  every time otherwise Meg won't fall the same way he shoots her.


Along side working on this scene we worked on understanding our characters better and the relationships they have with each other, this was extremely use full as we analysed the script and got to know our characters in more detail and help us understand some of their behaviour.