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In this lesson we went through everything we had blocked which was the majority of act one. We then focused on going over Emerald City and the end of act one as they were the ones we had done the least.

With the Emerald City scene we made it more blocked than improvised as otherwise it got messy as there was too many people on stage for it not to be blocked. I thought this was a good idea as it was cleaner which as a result added to the Emerald City Aesthetic, to add to this the Emerald city is very big and over the top so I came up with the idea that when the Ozians are describing what they have heard that the wiz looks like to do actions for example "a nine foot dragon" they surrounded the friends in a semi circle and leaned over them in a intimidating manner to represent the dragon. I think overall my idea really helped build the characterisation of the Ozians as well as their image as whole, this will also make it more visually interesting for the target audience which is of a younger audience because they prefer more visual things then just talking.

As I am in this scene both on and off cast, I found it easier to create a relationship between the characters as I could tell both points of view, therefore made it easier to develop my characters. I found that the Ozians are very stuck up and think that they rule Oz and that they are the best and don't like strangers coming in trying to disturb their perfect world whereas Dorothy at first is in awe at the City and the Ozians until they become horrible in which she is then embarrassed and daunted by them.

I think that the show is coming on quite well I think personally we still have far to go but we will get there, I think it will start to further develop once everyone is confident on their lines and cues so that we can then piece it all together. After doing the emerald city scene Jordy and |I went over a few ideas for our production role of multimedia thinking about what green effects we could use to make it more impressive, we came up with a landscape of the Emerald City to give more of an effect.

I think that my strengths within this lesson were contribution and characterisation. I think that my weaknesses were energy and lines, to improve these I will make sure that I get enough rest and have something that will help increase my energy levels like bananas, to improve my lines I will continue to learn them each night so that they get stuck in my head and make it easier to characterise I will do this within the next few weeks.