In today's lesson, we focused on the practising the song 'Christmas Bells'. This scene is located on the street where a variety of characters are involved, including the homeless and junkies. Me and Bryleah when off-stage to each other will be a homeless person in this section. We worked on creating some movement that would reflect those of the homeless, for example we chose to have our heads tilted down and body shrugged over, 'shuffling' rather than taking big steps. This symbolises how they feel uncomfortable with their surroundings and the judgement of others; that they don't belong and are simply existing. We also created gestures of us reaching our trembling hands out as we beg for change, and regularly tugging at our clothing to highlight the fact that it's winter season and they are living out on the cold streets. I feel we have made a good start, now with a handful of characterised movement that can be communicated to the extras that will also be performing as homeless people, so we can clearly portray the type of character.
We briefly discussed possible props that could be included in this scene, which will come under my production role as I manage props. We suggested a trolley could possibly be added, for a homeless person to push around the stage which is hoarded with worn out clothing and tacky belongings.
When we come back to this song, we need to further work on the whole song with the other roles involved, as it has an inconsistent rhythm and melody.
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