http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWoPsyY8CZY-All the little horses-'A beautiful yet sad song in its original form. Black slaves used to sing this to the children of their masters that they were forced to care for instead of caring for their own children. There are only a couple of verses to the song, but it has been changed over the years as times have changed. The line about “bees and butterflies pickin’ at its eyes” was changed to fluttering round his eyes. The reference to “the poor things crying for her mammy” was changed to mama.'
I think this song shows a significance in how it felt to be a slave, not only that it has relevance to slavery and is a modern version of the song, so could help with the contemporary theme of the play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_PxlIXnB0-Didn't leave nobody but the baby
I like this song because when I listened to it, it made me picture the chorus being involved in the scene and it's a song that comes from a scene in a film which sort has that persuading feel to it.
We managed to final get on to blocking some of the scene I have with Electra and I really enjoyed doing it. I managed to put in a lot of input to how I imagine the slave to act and I thought by actually running the scene it is so much easier to become the character. The slave and Electra have a very different relationship in the play than any other relationship as even though the slave is almost worthless, there is a moment in which Electra sort of admires her feminine ways, for example she sings, and she is graceful towards children, that is how most woman were expected to act, and how a lot of people would expect Electra to act but she's more of a fiery character and so there is a moment when I think the slave feels a bit of sympathy and Electra likes the comfort of her singing.
Creative Ideas & Devising: I wanted to portray my character of the slave with not only the shy non important side, but I also wanted to put her across as the sort of person who will do anything for her family, a stronger side who believes in who she is as well as where she comes from and I feel like I want to cling on to the baby she is looking after because its the closest thing she has to her family which is back home where she comes from. I decided I liked the idea of showing this special bond, and to show that I am trying to experiment with how I use my eyes. I look lovingly at the child in my arms, but am wary of everything around me, I feel comfort by looking after the child. I especially show this when I say the line 'The Gods say it is the way to peace, to love what is not mine'. I love the child and I show this with my eyes, but she is indeed not mine. I contrast this look to the ways in which I look at Electra, and also to the audience in a different scene. I look at Electra with a number of different ways depending on the way I feel towards her. There are a few lines at the beginning in which I feel sympathy for her, not enough to want to comfort her, but just enough to feel 'maybe i should respect her', it's not that I didn't before but because I feel she only see's me in one way so I don't see her as a kind person, but then I had a glimpse of her for just a moment in the sense it actually makes me think 'what has she gone through to her to look so sad'. That soon goes when she starts going a bit crazy towards the child, and that's when my 'motherly instinct' takes place and I am immediately protective of the child. In the scene Elle and I have a moment of eye contact which looks really good because it's highlighting the fact that she is engaging with someone a lot lower status than herself, but also shows a great deeper meaning of my characters and Elle's characters personality, and how deep their emotions go.
Development: We developed the movements with Kirsty, where we finished the opening chorus scene, and managed to experiment with different struggling movements, we end on everyone collapsing over the bath which looks like a big pile of dead weight bodies which looks really effective and captures the scene. We continued developing act one and looked at ways in which we could develop our journalist characters personalities. We did this by examining the way we walk and picturing ourselves in a journalists shoes. We walked around the space and were asked to think about, pace, posture, facial expression, focus, would I be day dreaming? Would I be completely focused? Would I be looking for something specific?. I walked quickly, to create a professional status, with my eyes focused on one spot as if I knew exactly what I wanted and I knew exactly how to get it. I walked with my shoulders back with a good posture and added a slight arm pose to show that sort of 'I know what i'm doing' gesture.
Strengths this week: I feel I have come up with some good feedback, particularly in my scene with Elle, and by watching the scene with Zac, Joe and Elle, as by watching from the front I was able to see it from a different point of view. A good piece of feedback was for Zac to take his time when saying his lines as his scene was quite a powerful moment and I wanted him to really take his time since I felt he should take control of the timing in that scene, because the focus of the audience was on him. I also helped with some suggestions in the scene with Elle and Joe, by putting across my opinion on what looked good and what could be changed.
Weakness' this week: I came in later on Monday as I had a problem with my ears, and I haven't been feeling very well recently, and I know I have to work harder next week to catch up.
Aims for next week: To catch up on what was missed and to experiment with different facial expressions during my journalist character.
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