10.02.15

In today's lesson Sav and I focused on our first scene together and performed this to the class at the end, we had a run through of all our scenes in chronological order, except for the ending scene as this scene is very long and we did not have time to run through this. We had not rehearsed our scene together for about 4 days, as we have all been focusing on our ending scene recently, so Sav and I spent the whole lesson rehearsing our scene. 
Notes from director 

• Take more pauses for more effect in lines 
• Work on staging 
• Make it bigger in cesario monologue 
• Great characterisation 
• Make Olivia more subtle- tone it down 
• Playfulness 
• We both fully understand the sub text and meaning of our lines 

This feedback was very positive and I feel really happy with how our scene is constantly developing. We need to focus on the staging and we have recieved notes on how to do this and what staging positions we should be in. We need to make the scene more central and not walk off into to the back or move around too much, I knew this would be the main feedback as we both realised that the staging was a bit scattered and was all over the place! We have focused so hard on our characterisation and character relationships and objectives, the blocking has kind of been over riden. But now we know that everyone feels our characterisation is good, we need to focus on the blocking and this is what we will do in our next rehearsals.
We were told that the characters should mainly always be at the front of the stage, especially Olivia, and we should not walk around too much, as it has no purpose in the scene. We will definitely listen to these notes and improve the blocking as it is so important and we want to feel comfortable on stage.
A personal target for myself from this feedback is to make my monologue even bigger, when I am telling Olivia what I would do if I were Orsino. I want to jump up onto the black block Olivia was sitting on when saying this monologue, and make my gestures really big and over the top, because Viola is kind of doing this on purpose to shock Olivia, and I want to show this to the audience. I will rehearse this with Sav next time we have rehearsals and probably over the half term as me and Sav live really close to each other.
I want to jump down from the block just before shouting "Olivia" as I do this I am going to grab Sav and shake her, in a comical way. I just want to have lots of energy for this monologue as it is an important monologue, and this definitely increases Olivia's infatuation for Viola. And also I really want to capture Olivia's response to this monologue as well, for example, Sav and I have tried out Olivia trying to stop Viola from shouting by Ssshing her and trying to pull her down from the block, and I feel this really works  as it is over the top and funny.
During our next rehearsal I really want to perfect the blocking, and try out different gestures for my monologue.