22.11.2013

What did we work on today?

    After our feedback on last Tuesday, we really wanted to start working on the bit's that were either lacking something or needed more attention from us. Especially getting Paige's characters have more lines and let her personality shine more trough, was a very important point to work on. So, what we did to enable this, we added a new part to the scene. In our scene, we have a moment where the characters start to look for a pack of cards on the boat, but then realize, that the rocking of the boat has knocked the cards into the debts of the sea. Before, this was just a moment that passed in our scene without bigger drama, but since Paige as a character is someone who naturally wants stew trouble, we decided that this could be a good moment to expand on trough improvising. Instead of the group just forgetting about the cards and moving on, Paige starts to speaks against Vera for leaving the cards on the deck, and even make fun of Vera's mishap. Even though the girls calm down quite quickly, this little episode between the two character's gives Paige the chance to keep picking on Vera trough out the rest of scene, bringing more of Paige's personality and character to show. What I really liked about improvising this scene, was that it felt very naturally to act out. Paige stirring up trouble because she feels it is the only thing she does well and Vera reacting to it with her uncertainty towards the group and her effort in it showing clearly and stating to the audience, that these people truly are drifting apart from each other. Still, with Xanthe trying to get over the cards, trying stop her friends fighting, point across that they did use to be better friends.

   Another thing we changed was the ending. Before, we had Rick's phone ring after Vera's melt down, revealing that he had a girlfriend all along, something more important than this friend group. From the feedback, we realized that this was a bit unnecessary, taking away emotion from Rick's death and Vera's emotions. What we did to fix this, we simply crossed out all the parts about the cellphone and the girlfriend, and rather had the group slowly realize, that Rick truly is dead and end the piece with them standing in silence, before being knocked out by large wave.

    We decided to also work on a Plan B, in case Max wasn't able to perform next week. The biggest changes in this version of our scene was, of course, the absence of Craig's character. Xanthe would be taking on the sailing of the boat, since her character was the only one with a privileged background and possibility to have done sailing before. Craig's lines were then divided between different character's. Hopefully, we won't be having to use this, but it is always good to have, just in case.