I had already worked with the groups already it was easy to help think of ways they need to develop.
I worked with the Section Four group :
Spacial awareness was a focus, having to stand still so that they focus was clear and we can't lose what they're saying. They also had trouble with developing a part about Macbeth, but by giving them an action and a character to play they managed to move the scene along with more visual energy.
I then worked with the Section Three group:
They mainly wanted help with the development of the 'St George's'. Part of them wanted to cut it out but I felt that it was too important in showing the contrast between Whitewall and St George's to do so. Then I helped with developing one of the teachers characters in the staff room to create humour as well as adding more tones into the scene.
Then, the last group that I worked with yesterday (Ninja) performed. This showed many of the inputs that I suggested being carried out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOR0-lIzhM&feature=youtu.be
The only thing I feel they need to develop is some of the transitions between where they switch between script and adlib. This will stop the pace of the performance jolting and make it flow and keep humour up.
The other group that I worked for also performed. The contrast of the oggy character with the teacher is definitely more evident :
I think the male character needs to be more varied in his vocal tones in order to not let the energy drop. Making a difference between emotions will be able to carry through in to different aspects of body language.
I helped another group separately to work on cutting down their section. When given their section of script they were allowed to chop away scenes deemed more invaluable to the plot of the play. This group found that the scenes in their section all offered a information that carried the story along, not only that, but it is the more serious part of the play that deals with the conflict and depression of the drama teacher. To help them cut it I told them to look at it closer, as they could not cut a whole section, cutting certain lines, or cutting a speech in half these seconds will add up. We went through together, searching for places within their performance that seemed to drag, this happened with Oggy Moxon and Nixon's argument, therefore we cut some lines to help keeps this scene more intense. Then with Doug, the caretaker, we chopped down parts of the lines where he would continue to go on, but not cut too much that it takes away from the character. By doing this we were able to make trim off each scene making it flow better, keeping the nice visual work they do but keeping the energy up as they were no longer lagging on longer lines.
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