Today's lesson

In Thursday's and Friday's lessons we worked out the timeline for our performance. We also stuck some of our posters on the walls and sorted out exactly what props and set we need for our room. We also managed to go over a few of our scripts and sort out some moments with people who are not in our rooms.

We now need to stick more posters up and get food for our room, we also need to make sure the voice over is done and the video for the projector which will be playing as our scene goes on.

My Personal Timeline

This is my timeline for the performance:

6:45 - Heating up soup, cutting bread - preparing canteen
7:00 - Meal time, serving food
7:10 - Lauren Conversation about party
7:20 - Stealing food, getting food from the cupboard, collecting bowls, walking round the canteen, adjusting posters, refilling soup, stock list.
7:25 - Speech from hallway people
7:30 Leaflets (O'Brien speech on screen)
7:35 - Eleanor to room 101
7:40 - Sam asking for Eleanor
7:45 - Soup spilling
7:50 - O'Brien speech
8:00 - Revolution

- When I have spare time I will be checking stock, cleaning and cooking.

My Character

I have decided to call my character Margaret Jones. She is a party supporter and works in the food hall where she is the head of the kitchen. Margaret lives with her husband and two children who want to become thought police. Margaret really respects Big Brother and hates traitors because she has been brought up to believe everything that the party and big brother says. She does not like trouble and is very strict with her employees.

Lesson I Missed

Due to being in France I missed the lesson where they planned what was going to happen in a timeline, however my group have told me what I need to do. Currently we are getting our costumes together and props as well as learning our lines from the scripts we wrote.

Soup script

Waitresses are moving around robotically without any friendly interaction with audience members. The atmosphere is cold and bitter and the workers are doing everything correctly accept from one who seems to be quite distressed in her gestures and hectic movements.

Waitress 1: (repeating to herself flustered, whilst looking at the cameras and posters on the walls) war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

(She walks in a hurry to serve the soup carrying cutlery, a bowl of soup a plate of bread and a glass on a tray. She bumps into the lead waitress dropping everything she’s holding making a loud noise )

Lead waitress: (shouting angrily) you clumsy fool!

Waitress: (fragmented and scared) I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with me today I-

Lead waitress: You stop right there! I’ll tell you what’s wrong that thought criminal has got to you haven’t she! Everyone this woman is a t –

Waitress 1: (cutting in) NO! I’m not, and I would never betray the party.

Lead Waitress: Don’t let those criminals get into your mind alright?

(weeps)

Waitress 1: I just don’t want them to hurt her

Lead waitress: Hurt her? What are you talking about, you must be sick. They will teach her the right way to be, she’s clearly a lost soul that needs bringing back, so she can be normal

Waitress 1: What’s normal?

(Continues to weep)

Lead waitress; (sternly) stop crying your embarrassing yourself, people are watching. It’s clear you’re effected now if I was you I would shut up whilst your ahead. I’ll be rid of you in a second, you’re not a star waitress and I will not have another one of my workers disgrace this kitchen.

Waitress 1: That’s enough now, I am not a criminal! And I’m a good waitress stop it!

Lead Waitress: (starting to get angry) Don’t you dare tell me when to stop now clean up this mess now!

Waitress 1: (stares at the cameras and whispers)Why do they have to watch us all the time?

Lead waitress? : (shocked) what did you just say?

Waitress 1: I-

Waitress 2: (covers Waitress 1’s mouth) Just ignore her she in an awfully weird mood

Pause (lead waitress stares at them both suspiciously)

Waitress 1: I’m truly sorry it won’t happen again, I won’t be so clumsy (quickly starts clearing)

Lead waitress: (sighs) Just get back to work, this is way too much chaos for one day in a lunch hall, and your talk is beginning to frighten me.



(Through the speaker you can hear) ‘War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength) and Waitress 1 continues to weep silently to herself whilst they all repeat this.

Timeline

6:45- heating soup and cutting bread. Making sure the live feed is set and properly
7:00- cutting bread, sweeping floor, serving soup
7:10- meal time ( an alarm rings, everyone rushes into the food hall to get a meal. Two people follow in after the rush, whispering and acting suspicious)
7:20/25- stealing food
7:35- cleaners and cooks talking to audience
7:45- rebellion leaflet
7:50- soup spills 

This is our timeline for our performance just in our room - I have highlighted the parts I am involved in.

Multimedia Performance

In our performance we will be using multimedia. Multimedia refers to the use of the processes, techniques and product of media such as film and radio in the creation and performance of a piece of live theatre.

(http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/backstage/multimedia)

In our performance we will be using audio, images, videos, projection, live feed and a few other types of multimedia. Projection can be used in theatre to create an illusion, set a location or tell a story.

In the Wizard of Oz projection is used to created the twister and also t make the wizards head. Here projection is useful because it creates a more realistic scene and it is more imaginative.

Projection is also used in A Curious incident of the dog in the night-time to show the boys thoughts. Using projection the audience are able to see the thoughts that are trapped in his head and it make s the performance more interesting and exciting.