technological aspects of media as it gives a more professional feel to the performance.
The door sequence consisted of Me, Emily, Alex and Matt. The boys did most of the movement and lifting of the door whilst me and Emily created ourselves to be the people that manipulated the scene around us. Whenever we exited off stage, we would then bring on a part of the set the next time we entered. Gradually building up the scene made it more interesting for the audience to watch as well as getting a sense of character from the opening. Once we had created this, we rehearsed it to get it up to speed then moved on to the final rehearsals.
We manage to get the first scene with the Photographer walking in with the trousers down right straight away as we had the script set already and the humour was relaxed and easily achievable.
My first bit of interaction's tone needed to be changed. I wasn't showing a mature enough response to realising the audience. I was holding a mug and originally I would spit the water out quite dramitcally, but we decided a slower release of water from the mouth back into the mug would create just as much humour. I am also going to expand on the 'partner' implication and make the sexual gesture bigger and slower in order to create more humour. I need to think of the tone of my voice when talking and remember to keep the language more mature and remove hedges and fillers such as 'erm' and 'um' except when I am doing so to create a more informal and comfortable feeling between myself and the audience.
When I'm going through the formal speech of the article I make my voice a lot clearer as if i am dictating everything in a clear reporter style. When beginning to read the story, Mr Chipp started to show me the images of the mutilated children, this made me do a word replacement list for when I am describing the child as I can then make the audience feel more uncomfortable and start to imagine what I have been witnessing whilst working on this story. It also creates a specific bond with the Journalist and the audience as I am the only person on stage and therefore the focus is on me and they have to listen to me. I decided that I wanted to continue holding the piece of paper, because I think you can tell a lot of the emotion from when i'm holding. When it becomes more involved with the story I look at the paper more in order to show the audience it was not a pleasant scene to watch and I can't look at them and admit that I did nothing but watch. I can also grab the paper and grasping them to show discomfort at the event I witnessed which adds another texture. I will also be using a dictaphone, as I get more and more lost in the reporting, I will not focus on it as much in order to give a natural performance of the Journalist.
When the bangs went when the Photographer reentered, we start laughing, this gives the first bit of relief from the serious tone, as well as being able to suggest to the audience that it's such a regular occurance that they are learning to laugh at what scares them. The only piece of improvement I was told was to make sure that I didn't sound so paniced and that I maintained an authorititive tone over my decisions.
When with the child I will clean the blood of her with a blanket, this links to a moment in the story when I say the woman that the man takes his dead child too cleans her. This connection and reanactment of the world surrounding the Journalist and Photographer, shows the different connections the two reporters have made with their surroundings which utimately could represent the world and choosing to ignore and take action when the conflict is presented infront of us.
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