Wiz 10/3

In this Lesson we finished blocking for act one and had solo singing sessions with Kim.

Now that we had finished blocking act one it made it a lot easier to learn lines as I could associate movement with the lines which was helpful as well helped me get the order of the show more clearly within my head. This helped me develop my character as I worked out her journey I could connect emotions with certain sections and start understanding the relationships she has with the friends and how they start to occur. My character really impacts on the scene because if she wasn't there I feel like the friends would end up in a frenzy. I think as a whole we are all still developing our character relationships and will do until we finish the blocking, as what I have discovered is that every time we do a scene we find a different angle to one of the friendships.

In the singing session with Kim we went over As Soon As I Get Home, we set the pace so that Jess and I were both comfortable with it, we decided to keep it quite slow at the beginning and then increase in speed, I suggested this as I said it shows her distress increasing throughout the song and I felt it gave us more to work up to at the end of the song. I decided at the end to build it up but then retract quite suddenly near the end into my head voice to show more of her sadness across as she says "What am I doing here?... I wish I was Home" to show she has calmed down but she doesn't know what to do just that she wants to be home. Also as she is alone in this point of time, she allows herself to let loose her emotions, as I said in my character interpretation how she has this wall up stopping her from freely using her emotions. This really helped me evolve my character as it allows me to show more emotion as she hasn't shown much at this point of the story also makes her more dynamic.

I think that my strengths in this lesson were focus and ideas contribution through coming up with different movement suggestions. My weaknesses in this lesson would probably be characterisation, to improve this I will go through each scene and write what my character is going through in that particular scene as well as the relationships within the scenes such as lion, Tinman and Scarecrow, I will do this for each scene as we get to it and have it done within the next two weeks.